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FORSYTH, David Roy
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | S17443, SX11378, SX11378 |
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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 |
Service History
World War 2 Service
15 Oct 1940: | Enlisted S17443 | |
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15 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (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 (WW2) , Corporal, SX11378 | |
Date unknown: | Discharged S17443 |
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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.