WALKER, Harold Dawson
Service Number: | TX4292 |
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Enlisted: | 22 January 1941, Hobart, Tas. |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 12th Small Ships Company |
Born: | Hobart, Tas., 26 December 1915 |
Home Town: | Norwood (SA), South Australia |
Schooling: | Moonah State School |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | 14 November 1995, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania Wellington Gardens, Niche Wall, A.I.F. 51, Number 5, Row C |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
22 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX4292, Hobart, Tas. | |
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14 Mar 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX4292, 12th Small Ships Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Alfred Charles WALKER of South Street, Bellerive, Tasmania. Educated at Moonah State School in Tasmania he played cricket and football and was in civil life a farmer at Pt. Cygent for many years. Residing at 19 Beulah Road, Norwood he enlisted in December 1940 and left for overseas in April 1941, fought through the desert campaign, where he contracted malarial fever and was invalided back to Australia to recover.