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HEDDLE, Robert Henry
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | TX3986, TX3968 |
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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 |
Memorials: |
Service History
World War 2 Service
30 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3986, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion | |
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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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