PARR, Gordon Cairo
| Service Number: | VX42533 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Field Company / Squadron RAE |
| Born: | Hay, New South Wales, Australia, 3 October 1915 |
| Home Town: | Finley, Berrigan, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Oxywelder |
| Died: | Killed in Action , New Guinea, 24 September 1943, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lae War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot AA. Row A. Grave 5. Personal Inscription: - "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE". |
| Memorials: | Finley War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX42533 | |
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| 24 Sep 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX42533, 2nd/3rd Field Company / Squadron RAE, Killed in action, New Guinea. | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX42533 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Black
Parents: - John Thomas Parr and Margaret Frances Amy Ledwidge married 30th September 1901 in Hay, New South Wales, Australia.
Trove: - The Riverine Grazier, Hay, Friday 15th October 1943, Page 2 , OBITUARY.
Sapper 'Snowy' Parr
Very sincere and deep regret was expressed in the town on Wednesday when it became known the Sapper Gordon C. ('Snowy') Parr of the Royal Australian Engineers, A.I.F. had been killed in action in New Guinea. Sapper Parr was the fourth son of the late John Parr of Carrathool and Mrs. Parr of Leonard Street, Hay. He was almost 28 years of age and was
single.Born at Hay, he had spent most of his life in the Carralhool district, being a member of one of the best
known families in that district. He was employed by the W. C. and I.C. at Finley when he enlisted in that
town in 1940. Sailing to the Middle East he saw a good deal of action in that theatre of war being in Palestine, Syria and Egypt as well as being one of the renowned 'Rats of Tobruk.' He was in the big push in which the Germans were started off on their last rush out of North Africa and returned home with the Ninth Division. He was one of the boys rescued from Narrandera when they were left standed at that town on theroad home on leave. He had been in New Guinea a couple of months. His mates spoke of him as being an expert at 'de-lousing' mine-fields. Of his five brothers, three were in the A.I.F., one Arthur being discharged. W. O. Laurie Parr was in Hay about the same time as the deceased on leave, and Fred is in a field bakery company in Darwin. The other brothers are Jack of Goolgowi and Walter of Hay. There are six sisters, Maude (Mrs Hurst), Dolly (Mrs O'Neill), Gertie (Mrs O'Donnell), Thelma (Mrs Stewart), May (Mrs Dren
nan) and Miss Olive Parr, of Hay.
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