TAYLOR, Harold Davis
| Service Number: | 409254 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 July 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | No. 102 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Colac, Victoria, Australia, 23 September 1922 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Dreeite South and Wool Wool State Schools, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 16 December 1997, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Colac General Cemetery, Victoria Plot: CLC-LAWN-D07-808-17. Memorial ID: #156591965 |
| Memorials: | Colac Dreeite South WW2 Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 409254, No. 102 Squadron (RAAF) | |
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| 31 Oct 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 409254, No. 102 Squadron (RAAF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Ian Fox
Harold was born the eldest son of dairy farmers on a soldier settlement block at Dreeite South. He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in Melbourne on 20th July 1941 as an Air Crew Volunteer and was trained as an aircraft gunner.
On 21st March 1942 he was re-mustered to the Driver Mechanic Motor Transport division and posted to Darwin soon after. He was in Darwin during the Japanese air raids. In late 1942 he was deployed to Point Cook Flying Training School and then later to the Engineering School at Carlton. He was made a corporal in April 1944.
On 31st May 1945 he was transferred to the 102 (Liberator) Squadron at Cecil Plains in Queensland, where he was in training for overseas bombing missions (reportedly an attack on Japan). He was discharged on 31st October 1945 after hostilities ceased.
Harold married Frances Beryl McKenzie on 13th April 1943 at Warrion Presbyterian Church. After the War, they became farmers at South Purrumbete. He died on 16th December 1997 at Warrnambool and is buried in Colac Lawn Cemetery.
[Source: Colac Family History Project/WW2 Honour Roll]
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