Clarence FINDLAY

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FINDLAY, Clarence

Service Number:	VX37346
Enlisted:	13 July 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/7th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Warburton, Victoria, Australia, 7 October 1909
Home Town:	Noojee, Baw Baw, Victoria
Schooling:	Icy Creek State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Chainman (Surveys)
Died:	Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 2 May 1988, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Warragul Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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World War 2 Service

13 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX37346
9 Apr 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX37346, 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion, embarked Sydney for Middle East per NN
12 Mar 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX37346, 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion, embarked Middle East for Sydney
7 Oct 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX37346, 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion, embarked Brisbane for New Guinea
21 Jan 1943:	Wounded Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX37346, 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion, GSW leg
6 Feb 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX37346, 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion, embarked Port Moresby for Brisbane per HT Manunda
17 Feb 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX37346

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Clarence Findlay (Service No:VX37346) enlisted in the Army on 13 July 1940 with No 2 Training Battalion and was posted to 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion on 14 October 1940. Private Findlay served with 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion in the Middle East (9 April 1941 - 12 March 1942) and in New Guinea (21 October 1942 - 6 February 1943). promoted to Corporal on 7 October 1942, he was WiA (GSW leg) in New Guinea in January 1943, and was Discharged on 17 February 1944.

Born in 1909 in Warburton Victoria, Clarence was the eldest of six children of Ernest John Findlay MiD (b1891 in Geelong, Victoria) and Matilda Margaret Smith (b1892 in Neerim, Victoria). Ernest (a Farmer) and Matilda married in 1917 in Neerim, Victoria where they settled and raised their family. Ernest served in WWI and returned to Fumina via Neerim. Matilda died in 1929 and Ernest remained at Fumina where he was a Selector/Farmer.

Clarence worked at Laver's Hill in Beech Forest as a Labourer and at Icey Creek via Noojee where he was a Chainman for Surveyors (measuring dimensions and distances of land). Clarence enlisted in the Army in 1940 and was in Melbourne in 1943 when he married Isabel (Bell) Hart (b1921 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Bell was working as a Clerk. Clarence and Bell settled in Warragul where Clarence was a Farmer at Shady Creek from the late 1940s to late 1960s and then a Metal Worker until retirement. Bell died in 1977 and Clarence in 1988.

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