HILLIER, Albert Arthur
| Service Number: | VX5051 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 October 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia, 3 January 1912 |
| Home Town: | Peterborough, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | General Labourer |
| Died: | Elliminyt, Victoria, Australia, 16 June 1984, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Colac General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX5051, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 8 Aug 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX5051, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Ian Fox
Albert Hillier, known as Dan, was born in Tasmania and was the youngest of 10 children. He moved to Victoria and worked around Port Campbell as a labourer during the 1930s. In Oct 1939 he enlisted in the Army and served in the Middle East.
In Sep 1940 whilst at Helwan, Egypt, he attended the school of cookery at the rest camp Sarafand and later became a group 2 Cook. The 2/6 Battalion embarked for service in Greece April 1941.
Dan was noted as missing in Crete June 1941, reported POW and interned in Germany. He was recovered and arrived in UK 29 April 1945.
After the war, Albert married Yvonne Gordon in 1947 at Cobden, and together they ran a farm at Irrewillipe.
[Source: Colac Family History Project/WW2 Honour Roll]
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