JORASLAFSKY, Harold Leith
| Service Number: | SX34173 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 March 1945, Wayville, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 66th Australian Infantry Battalion (BCOF Japan) |
| Born: | Norwood, Adelaide, South Australia, 13 February 1927 |
| Home Town: | Prospect (SA), Prospect, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cabinetmaker |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 1 November 2001, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 22 Mar 1945: | Involvement Private, SX34173 | |
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| 22 Mar 1945: | Enlisted Wayville, SA | |
| 22 Mar 1945: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX34173 | |
| 11 Apr 1946: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX34173, 66th Australian Infantry Battalion (BCOF Japan), embarked Sydney for Kure, Japan on board the Duntroon | |
| 11 Sep 1947: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX34173, 66th Australian Infantry Battalion (BCOF Japan), embarked Kure Japan for Sydney on board the Kanimbla | |
| 9 Oct 1947: | Discharged | |
| 9 Oct 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX34173 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Harold Leith Joraslafsky (Service No:SX34173) enlisted in the AIF on 22 March 1945 with 19 Infantry Training Battalion. On 14 April 1946 Private Joraslafsky was attached to 66 Infantry Battalion when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney for Kure, Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). Private Joraslafsky embarked from Kure for Sydney NSW on board the Kanimbla, and was attached to 66 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 9 October 1947.
Bon was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1927, third of five children of Francis Otto Joraslafsky (b1900 in Kooringa via Burra, South Australia) and Muriel Mevina Mathan Lines (b1903 at Matta Flat via Kadina, South Australia). Francis (a Labourer) and Muriel married in 1923 in Adelaide, where they settled and raised their family and Francis was a Labourer and a Clerk. Francis served in WWII (Private; Service No:SX3467).
Bon was working in Adelaide as a Cabinetmaker in 1945 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge in 1947, Bon returned to Adelaide where, in 1951, he married Everill (Rill) Rosalie Walshe (b1925 in Ballarat, Victoria) - Rill was a Stenographer in Adelaide. Rill died in 2013 and Bon in 2021.
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