ACKLAND, Hurtle Esmond
| Service Number: | 153035 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 May 1944, Enlisted at Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Rose Park, SA, 31 May 1908 |
| Home Town: | Hawker, Flinders Ranges, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grazier |
| Died: | Accidental, Maaoupe, South Australia, 4 May 1957, aged 48 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 30 May 1944: | Involvement 153035 | |
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| 30 May 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 153035, Enlisted at Adelaide | |
| 21 Jan 1946: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
29 October 1932 - Married Marjorie Ethel Bray in the Methodist Church, Clare South Australia
After the war Hurtle settled on a crazing property in the Maaoupe area. On the day of his death he left the house to go shooting rabbits for tea when he never returned a neighbour went looking for Hurtle and found him in hanging by the boot with a fatal bullet wound. The official finding was that he been climbing over a fence and that his boot had hooked in the barbed wire and that the rifle had discharged. Many of those who knew him disagree with the finding saying that he was 'too good a rifleman to climb a fence with the safety catch off'. It is know that he was suffering from depression prior to the incident
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