Harold Dawson WALKER

WALKER, Harold Dawson

Service Number: TX4292
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
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World War 2 Service

22 Jan 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX4292, Hobart, Tas.
14 Mar 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX4292, 12th Small Ships Company

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Biography 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.