Alan Aubrey SALTER MBE

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SALTER, Alan Aubrey

Service Numbers:	TX2059, TX2059, T608
Enlisted:	6 May 1940
Last Rank:	Major
Last Unit:	2nd/8th Field Regiment
Born:	St Marys, Fingal District, Tasmania , 6 September 1905
Home Town:	Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Draftsman
Died:	Hobart, Tasmania, 18 July 1996, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania
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World War 2 Service

6 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, TX2059
16 Nov 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, TX2059, 2nd/8th Field Regiment, embarked Melbourne for Middle East
23 Nov 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, TX2059, 2nd/8th Field Regiment, embarked Middle East for Sydney on board SS Mauritania
28 Feb 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, TX2059, 2nd/8th Field Regiment, Medically Unfit
24 Feb 1944:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, T608, 1st Battalion (Tas) VDC
23 Jan 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, T608
Date unknown:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, T608

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Major Alan Aubrey Salter MBE (Service Nos:TX2059/T608) served in the Militia (Lieutenant; Australian Field Artillery) from the early 1930s before enlisting in the AIF on 6 May 1940. Major Salter served in the Middle East (16 November 1941 to 23 November 1942) and was attached to 2/8 Field Regiment when he was Discharged (medically unfit) on 28 February 1943. Major Salter then served in the ACMF (24 February 1944 to 23 January 1945) with 1 Battalion (Tas) VDC and Hobart Fortress VDC.

Alan was born in St Marys, Tasmania in 1905, eleventh of twelve children of Simeon Edward Salter (b1863 in Falmouth, Tasmania) and Louisa Lohrey (b1865 in Falmouth, Tasmania). Simeon (a Store Assistant) and Loisa married in 1887 in St Marys, where they settled and raised their family and Simeon worked as a Store Assistant.

Alan worked as a Draftsman with the Postmaster Generals Department in Franklin, and in 1930 in Hobart married Dorothy Isobel May Foster (b1908 in Devonport, Tasmania) - Dorothy was a Radio Producer, Script Writer and Actress. Alan and Dorothy divorced in 1937 - Dorothy moved to Sydney, NSW where she remarried. Alan was working in Hobart as a Draftsman in 1938 when he remarried to Betty Jean Crisp (b1913 in New Town, Tasmania). Following Alan's discharge in 1945, he returned to the Postmaster Generals Department and he and Betty lived in New Town, Hobart and Lindisfarne. Alan became a Justice of the Peace, was awarded the Australian Efficiency Medal in 1947, and in 1970 was Superintendent of Personnel with the PMGs Department when he was awarded the Order of the British Empire - Member (Civil). Betty died in 1994 and Alan in 1995.

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