LEMMER, Harold Hervey
| Service Number: | VX54310 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 April 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/2nd Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 1 November 1917 |
| Home Town: | Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | 4 March 1990, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Altona Memorial Park, Victoria plot Elm Lawn (C), Row GG, Grave 5 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 28 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX54310 | |
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| 9 Feb 1943: | Involvement VX54310, 2nd/2nd Field Ambulance, Milne Bay - Papua New Guinea WW2, Saved Private McGuigans life | |
| 20 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Corporal, VX54310, 2nd/2nd Field Ambulance |
Saved McGuigan
9 Feb, 1943. During this day’s fighting Private McGuigan was wounded about1 PM by a bullet which passed entirely through his upper abdomen. He was reported to have been last seen crawling through the bush. At 5 PM Corporal Dowd of Captain Quinn;s Regimental Aid post staff and Private Lemmer (of the light section of the 2/2nd Field Ambulance assisting Quinn) set out through the darkening bush to find him with two infantry men as escorts. They searched well below the many Jap Track Junction and disregarding the danger from the many Japanese in that much fought-over area, called McGuigan’s name again and again through the gloom. They found him at 7 PM and carried him then in the darkness for over an hour, on a blanket slung between two rifles. The night and the mountains temporarily defeated them and they camped forward of the Junction and far from the nearest Australian positions. With the following dawn they carried the wounded man for another three hours before native bearers met and relieved them. True story. This was extracted from “Australia in the war of 1939-1943 Kokoda to Wau.
Submitted 25 June 2024 by eee Lemmer
Biography contributed by eee Lemmer
Harold Hervey Lemmer, a man. Married, his wife Minnie Isabel Lemmer. Him, his brother Frank Malcolm Lemmer and brother in law, Godfrey Julius George Clark. They were all in the 2/2nd Field Ambulance, Harold saved a man, Private McGuigan. Him and Minnie had four kids, Wendy, Peter, Greame and Lynn. His Son, Graeme had three children. Kane, Brett and Anthea. Kane, the only one with a child, has a son and daughter. His daughter was a stillborn, his son is Lucas Andrew Graeme Lemmer. Harold, he was brave, his plaque is at his great grandson and grandson's house, Lucas and Kane. He got copies of his medal's for his children and grandchildren. They have been past down. He was brave for his entire life, that's why he was great. Thank you.
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