Herbert Edward (Herb) GRAHAM

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GRAHAM, Herbert Edward

Service Numbers:	V128157, VX141574
Enlisted:	5 August 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	37/52 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Briagolong via Maffra, Gippsland, Victoria, 3 October 1918
Home Town:	Briagolong, Wellington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Maffra, Gippsland, Victoria, 10 December 2000, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Maffra Public Cemetery, Victoria https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/238492840/herbert-edward-graham
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World War 2 Service

5 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V128157, 37/52 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF
26 Feb 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V128157, 37/52 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Brisbane for Milne Bay
22 May 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX141574
28 Aug 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX141574, 37/52 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Madang on board Katoomba for Brisbane
2 May 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX141574

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Herbert Edward Graham (Service Nos/V128157/VX141574) initially served in the ACMF (5 August 1941 - 22 May 1943) with 3rd Division Provost Coy, and was attached to 37/52 Infantry Battalion when he embarked with his Unit from Brisbane for Milne Bay on 26 February 1943. Private Graham was 'in the field in Papua' (NAA) when he enlisted in the AIF, and was attached to 37/52 Infantry Battalion on 29 August 1944 when he embarked from Madang for Brisbane on board the Katoomba. Private Graham was Discharged on 2 May 1945. He was one of four siblings (Charles, Alfred and Bill) who served in WWII.

Herb was born in Briagolong via Maffra, Victoria in 1918, fourth of seven children of William Frederick Graham (b1882 in Heyfield, Victoria) and Anne Jane Davis (b1886 in Toombon, Victoria). William (a Farmer at Briagolong) and Anne married in Melbourne in 1909, and settled in Briagolong, where they raised their family and William was a Farmer.

Prior to enlistment in the Army, Herb worked as a Farm Hand for his father at Briagolong, returning there following his Discharge. Herb worked at Briagolong as a Farmer with his father and, following William's death in 1950, Herb settled in Melbourne where he was a Railway Worker and Storeman until he retired and returned to Maffra in the mid 1980s. Herb died in 2000.

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