Edward Henry (Harry) ELSON

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ELSON, Edward Henry

Service Numbers:	S26143, SX18868
Enlisted:	18 December 1939
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 24 May 1919
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Moulder
Died:	Adelaide, South Australia, 9 July 1998, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

18 Dec 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, S26143, 48th Infantry Battalion
30 Jun 1941:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, S26143, 10/48 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF
25 Sep 1942:	Involvement Sapper, SX18868, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
25 Sep 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX18868
25 Sep 1942:	Enlisted Wayville, SA
17 May 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX18868
17 May 1946:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sapper Edward Henry Elson (Service No:SX18868) first served with the Militia (Private; Service No:S26143) with 48th Battalion Victoria from 18 December 1939 to 30 June 1941. Sapper Elson then served with the AIF, enlisting on 25 September 1942 with 2/10 Battalion. He served in New Guinea (20 December 1942 to 15 February 1944 and 10 January 1945 to 2 May 1946) with 13th and 2/14th Field Coys. Sapper Elson was attached to 2/14th Field Coy at Discharge on 17 May 1946.

The eldest of five children, Harry was born in 1919 in Adelaide, South Australia to Clarence George Kennion Elson (b1895 at Port Lincoln, South Australia) and Mary Teresa Day (b1897 in Broken Hill, NSW). Clarence (a Labourer) and Mary married in 1919 in Adelaide, South Australia and by the 1920s lived in Walleroo where Clarence was a Labourer before moving to Adelaide in the 1940s.

Harry worked as a Moulder before enlisting, and following his Discharge settled in Adelaide where he married Yvonne Daphne Birch (b1923 in Semaphore, South Australia) - Yvonne served in the RAAF in WWII (Corporal; Service No:91957). Harry died in 1998 and Yvonne in 2011.

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