NELSON, Lawrence Hugh
| Service Numbers: | W49362, WX33912 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Supply Depot Companies / Platoons |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 31 August 1908 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fitter's Mate |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 19 September 1964, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 11 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W49362 | |
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| 12 Oct 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W49362 | |
| 13 Oct 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, WX33912, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons | |
| 16 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, WX33912, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Staff Sergeant Lawrence Hugh Nelson (Service No:WX33912) first enlisted as a Private (Service No:W49362) in the ACMF on 11 April 1942, and Discharged on 13 October 1942 to enlist in the AIF. Staff Sergeant Nelson served with 3 Australian Mobile Armoured Coy and was in NEI from 10 May 1945 to 23 December 1945. He was attached to 183 Australian Supply Depot Platoon when he was Discharged on 16 January 1946.
Hugh was born in 1907 in Perth WA, the eleventh of twelve children of Alfred (Alf) Nelson (b1864 in Roxburghshire, Scotland) and Amy Kate Stoyel (b1871 in Devon, England). Alf was a Coach Body Maker in Scotland and immigrated to Brisbane, QLD in 1883. Amy immigrated in 1889, arriving in Brisbane QLD on board the Merkara. Alf (a Coach Builder) and Amy married in Brisbane QLD in 1889 and by 1892 had moved to Victoria where they lived in Melbourne and at the El Dorado Gold Mines. In 1895 Alf and Amy moved their family to Western Australia and lived in Midland Junction and Mt Magnet before settling in Leederville in Perth WA. Alf - a Carpenter - travelled to the country for work whilst his family remained in Perth. By 1910, Alf had settled in Leederville where he worked as a Wheelwright.
Hugh worked as a Labourer in Perth and in 1933 married Charlotte May Knight (b1914 in Perth, WA). Hugh was a Fitter's Mate in 1942 when he enlisted in the ACMF and he and Charlotte settled in Perth where Hugh worked as a Pipe Fitter until his death in 1964. Following Hugh's death, Charlotte remarried and died in 2012.
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