Robert Henry HEDDLE

HEDDLE, Robert Henry

Service Numbers: TX3986, TX3968
Enlisted: 30 July 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born: Currie, King Island, Tasmania, Australia, 13 May 1919
Home Town: King Island, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Tasmania, Australia, 11 January 2007, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Hobart (Queenborough) Cemetery, Tasmania
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World War 2 Service

30 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3986, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
8 Dec 1941: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3986, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, From Darwin to Timor; disembarked 0n 12 December 1941.
8 Dec 1942: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3968, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, Soon after arriving in Timor Hays was hospitalized, and by 5 January 1942 had been evacuated to Australia. He contracted polio eventually leading to his discharge as medically unfit.
1 Sep 1943: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3986, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion

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