CRANE, Charles Henry
| Service Number: | NX82633 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia, 3 February 1920 |
| Home Town: | Darbalara, Gundagai, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Labourer |
| Died: | Tumut, New South Wales, Australia, 29 April 1998, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Tumut New Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia |
| Memorials: | Gundagai War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 7 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, NX82633, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF | |
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| 2 Apr 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, NX82633, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby on board SS Taroona | |
| 9 Jan 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, NX82633, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, emplaned Port Moresby for Townsville | |
| 4 Feb 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, NX82633, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
One of the three brothers (John, Ben and Laurie) who served in WWII, Sergeant Charles Henry Crane (Service No:NX82633) enlisted in the AIF on 7 January 1942 as a Private with General Details Depot (GDD) and marched out to 5 Infantry Training Battalion. Sergeant Crane served iwith 55/53 Infantry Battalion in New Guinea (2 April 1942 - 9 January 1943), and was Discharged on 4 February 1944 ('being required for employment in an essential occupation' NAA).
Ben was born in Gundagai, New South Wales in 1920, third of nine children of Charles (Harry) Henry George Crane (b1896 in Gundagai, New South Wales) and Ada Muriel Blanche Crane (b1897 in Gundagai, New South Wales). Harry and Ada married in 1916 in Gundagai, and settled at Darbalara via Gundagai where they raised their family and Harry was a Dairy Farmer. In 1947 Harry purchased 'Fairview' in the Blowering Valley, where he was a Grazier until his death the following year.
Ben worked as a Farmer/Labourer with his father at Darbalara before enlisting in the AIF in 1942. He Discharged in 1944 ('being required for employment in and essential occupation') to help his father with the family farm. In 1945 in Gundagai, Ben married Catherine (Rosie) Rose Slater (b1926 in Gundagai, New South Wales). Ben and Rosie settled at 'Fairview' in Blowering via Tumut, where they raised their family and Ben was a Farmer. In the 1960s Ben and Rosie settled in Tumut - Rosie died in 1988 and Ben in 1998.
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