Elgin John DOUGHERTY

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Service Number:	VX11679
Enlisted:	27 March 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/8th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Cooma, New South Wales, Australia, 17 January 1919
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 9 July 1990, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Deniliquin General Cemetery
Memorials:	Yarroweyah War Memorial

27 Mar 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX11679, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion
24 Oct 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX11679, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion

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Albert was born in Kyabram, the son of Arthur Edward Dougherty and Margaret Ellen Colbert.

He married Thelma Jean Bunn in 1942. They lived in Cobram until 1984 when they moved to Deniliquin.

They had five children, two sons and three daughters.