Eustace Douglas BARLOW

BARLOW, Eustace Douglas

Service Number: QX5580
Enlisted: 21 May 1940, Toowoomba, Qld.
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 2nd/7th Cavalry (Commando) Regiment
Born: Toowoomba, Qld., 2 August 1913
Home Town: Hannaford, Western Downs, Queensland
Schooling: Riverview Sydney, Toowoomba Grammar School, Agricultural College Gatton
Occupation: Grazier
Died: Killed in Action, Papua, 19 December 1942, aged 29 years
Cemetery: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
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Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Greenslopes 2nd/7th Cavalry Regiment Honour Roll, Toowoomba Grammar School WW2 Honour Board, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW2, Toowoomba WW2 Roll of Honour Book, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial)
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Lieutenant, QX5580
21 May 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant Colonel, QX5580, 2nd/7th Cavalry (Commando) Regiment , Toowoomba, Qld.
21 May 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, QX5580
19 Dec 1942: Discharged

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Arthur Eustace Barlow and Irene Margaret Barlow, of Toowoomba, Queensland

He was killed in action at Huggins’ and James’ Roadblocks in the Battle of the Sanananda Track on 19th December 1942.

HONOR ROLL.
Downsmen Killed
LIEUTENANT Alan McDougall, formerly of Cooaga, Wandoan, and Lieutenant Eustace D. Barlow, formerly of Bathampton, Hannaford, were two Downsmen amongst those recently killed in action in New Guinea.
Lieutenant Barlow was the second son of Captain and Mrs. Eustace Barlow, Toowoomba. He was educated at Riverview, Sydney, and later attended the Agricultural College, Gatton. Afterwards, with his elder brother, Graham, he took up land at Hannaford.

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