LACCO, Harold
| Service Numbers: | VX37565, VX37565 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/9th Field Regiment |
| Born: | Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, 5 March 1917 |
| Home Town: | Rosebud, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Shipwright and Boatman |
| Died: | Dromana, Victoria, Australia, 2 September 1998, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Dromana Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 16 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX37565 | |
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| 28 Jun 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX37565, 2nd/9th Field Regiment, embarked Sydney for Middle East | |
| 31 Mar 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX37565, 2nd/9th Field Regiment, embarked Middle East for Melbourne on board USS Westpoint | |
| 26 May 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX37565, 2nd/9th Field Regiment, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby on board Taroona | |
| 3 Jun 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX37565, 2nd/9th Field Regiment, embarked Lae for Brisbane on board Sea Snipe | |
| 23 May 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX37565, 2nd/9th Field Regiment, embarked Cairns for Morotai on board LSM 37 | |
| 22 Nov 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX37565, 2nd/9th Field Regiment, embarked Balikapan for mainland on board HMTS Cheshire | |
| 6 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX37565 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper Harold Lacco (Service No:VX37565) enlisted in the AIF on 16 July 1940 and was attached to RRD Royal Park and 2/2 Pioneer Training Battalion. Initially graded as Carpenter, in 1942 he was graded as Engine Artificer. Sapper Lacco served with 2/9th Field Regiment in the Middle East (28 June 1941 - 31 March 1942), New Guinea (26 May 1943 - 4 June 1944) and Borneo (23 May 1945 - 22 November 1945). Sapper Lacco was attached to 2/9 Field Regiment at Discharge on 6 December 1945.
Born in Queenscliff, Victoria in 1917, Harold was fourth of six children of Patrick (Mitch) Mitchell Lacco (b1883 in McCrae, Mornington Peninsula,Victoria) and Lucy Mary Wickham (b1884 in Ipswich, QLD). Mitch, who descended from a lighthouse crew family, was a Boat Builder when he and Lucy married in 1907 in Melton, Victoria. Mitch and Lucy lived in Rosebud before settling in Queenscliff in 1916, and returning to Rosebud in the 1920s. Following Lucy's death in 1947, Mitch remarried in 1954 to Beatrice Victoria Hannah Anderson (nee Munyard; b1887 in Melbourne, Victoria). Mitch and his family were Boat Builders, Sail Makers and Fishermen.
Harold was working in Rosebud as a Shipwright and Boatman when he enlisted in the Army in 1940. In 1942 in Hamilton, Victoria he married Eileen May Miller Dean (b1912 in Hamilton, Victoria) and following his Discharge, he and Eileen settled in Rosebud, Dromana where they raised their family and Harold was a Boat Builder and Fisherman. Harold died in 1998 and Eileen in 2002.
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