James Edward LANGFORD

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LANGFORD, James Edward

Service Number:	VX69477
Enlisted:	23 December 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Field Regiment
Born:	Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 6 April 1910
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 27 September 1978, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Warragul Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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World War 2 Service

23 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX69477
8 Apr 1942:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/8th Field Regiment, Artillery
7 Aug 1943:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, 2nd/3rd Field Regiment
9 Nov 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX69477, 2nd/3rd Field Regiment, embarked Townsville for Aitape on board Katoomba
13 May 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX69477, 2nd/3rd Field Regiment, emplaned Lae to Amberley
7 Nov 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX69477

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private James Edward Langford (Service No:VX69477) enlisted in the Army on 23 December 1941 and was attached to 6 Training Battalion prior to transfer to 8th Field Regiment (Artillery) on 8 April 1942. Private Langford then transferred to 2nd/3rd Field Regiment on 7 August 1943 and served in New Guinea from 4 November 1944 to 13 May 1945. He was Discharged on 7 November 1945.

Born in 1910 in Warragul Victoria, Jim was the eldest of eight children of John (Jack) James Langford (b1882 in Rochester, Victoria) and Rhoda Grace Hinkley (b1891 in Casterton, Victoria). Jack (a Labourer) and Rhoda married in 1909 in Warragul, Victoria where they settled and raised their family. Jack was a Dairy Farmer.

Jim was a Labourer in Warragul in 1934 when he married Jean (Jinny) Taylor Brewis (b1909 in Northumberland, England) - Jinny immigrated in 1911, arriving on board the Commonwealth. By 1941 when Jim enlisted in the Army he stated he was Single (his wife had left him according to his Attestation Papers) - he was a Labourer in Moriac, Victoria. In 1947 in Drouin, Victoria Jim remarried to Lauris Mary Verdun Simpson (b1916 in Cheltenham, Victoria). Jim and Lauris settled in Drouin where Jim was a Labourer and Farmer before moving to Warragul in the mid 1960s - Jim worked as a Labourer. Jim died in 1978 and Lauris in 2010.

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