David Roy FORSYTH

FORSYTH, David Roy

    Service Numbers: S17443, SX11378, SX11378
    Enlisted: 15 October 1940
    Last Rank: Corporal
    Last Unit: 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
    Born: Goodwood, South Australia, 14 September 1917
    Home Town: Hackham, Onkaparinga, South Australia
    Schooling: Morphett Vale Public School, South Australia
    Occupation: Farmer (later quarry worker)
    Died: Emphysema, Daw Park Repat Hospital, South Australia, 13 October 1992, aged 75 years
    Cemetery: Morphett Vale Scotch Cemetery, South Australia
    Cremation (ashes buried on the family plot)
    Memorials: Morphett Vale Eternal Flame Memorial Garden and Walkway
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    World War 2 Service

    15 Oct 1940: Enlisted S17443
    15 Oct 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, SX11378
    15 Oct 1940: Enlisted Private, S17443, Army Training Units, Reynella, South Australia. Men of 'eligible age' were initially drafted into the Militia. They could transfer as a volunteer to serve overseas into the 2nd AIF
    8 Nov 1940: Transferred Private, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
    30 Apr 1941: Involvement Private, SX11378, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion, Siege of Tobruk, Arrival date needs to be confirmed
    5 Jul 1942: Involvement Private, SX11378, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion, El Alamein
    5 Sep 1943: Involvement Private, SX11378, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion, New Guinea - Huon Peninsula / Markham and Ramu Valley /Finisterre Ranges Campaigns
    2 May 1945: Discharged Corporal, SX11378, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
    2 May 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, SX11378
    Date unknown: Discharged S17443

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    Biography

    David served in Tobruk as a reinforcement as well as Syria and El Alamein.

    Retrained and served in New Guinea, where he contracted scrub typhus.

    While on light duties at Loveday internment camp he met his future wife Betty at Renmark. They married in 1946, lived at Hackham and had four childern, Ian, Yvonne, Martin and Mary.

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