DENNING, Alfred Roy
| Service Number: | VX148710 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 May 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Colac, Victoria, Australia, 15 December 1920 |
| Home Town: | Gellibrand, Colac-Otway, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Saw Mill Hand |
| Died: | Gellibrand, Victoria, Australia, 26 March 2005, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Colac General Cemetery, Victoria Plot: CLC-LAWN-F06-808-08. Memorial ID: #156581684 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 19 May 1944: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX148710, 2nd/2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 May 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX148710, 2nd/2nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Ian Fox
Alfred was called up for full-time duty on 24 Nov 1941. The 39th Battalion was sent to New Guinea in 1942 as part of the 30th Brigade to defend the territory against a Japanese attack. Subsequently, between July and August of that year the unit was heavily engaged in the defence of Port Moresby, fighting along the Kokoda Track. They were also later involved in the fighting around Buna-Gona.
Such was their involvement in the battle that by the time they were withdrawn they could only muster 32 men and following its return to Australia, the unit was disbanded in early July 1943. Alfred was then attached to 2/2 Infantry Battalion and between 1943 and 1944 spent time training in northern Queensland.
The 2/2nd's last campaign of the war was to clear the Japanese from the Aitape-Wewak region of New Guinea between December 1944 and August 1945. Alfred's military record notes a disability, a small grenade fragment in right chest.
[Source: Colac Family History Project/WW2 Honour Roll and Wikipedia]
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