Vernon Harcourt Thallen ANDERSON

ANDERSON, Vernon Harcourt Thallen

    Service Number: NX84001
    Enlisted: 15 January 1942
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Ballina, New South Wales, Australia., 5 July 1906
    Home Town: Ballina, Ballina, New South Wales
    Schooling: Unknown
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Killed in Action, New Guinea, 29 March 1945, aged 38 years
    Cemetery: Lae War Cemetery
    (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot S. Row D. Grave 12. Personal Inscription ~ "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE... EVER REMEMBERED".
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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    World War 2 Service

    3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, NX84001
    15 Jan 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX84001, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion
    29 Mar 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion, Killed in action, New Guinea

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    Vernon Harcourt Thallen ANDERSON was born in Ballina, NSW on 5th July, 1906

    His parents were Francis Seymour ANDERSON & Elizabeth MULDOON

    He married Amanda Ann RITZAN in Ballina in 1933

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    His brother Colin James ANDERSON (SN NX85899) also served during WW2 and died of wounds in New Guinea on 2nd October, 1943 - he is buried in the same cemetery as his brother Vernon

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