Walter Havelock BEER

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Service Number:	NX19307
Enlisted:	31 May 1940
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	2nd/15th Field Regiment
Born:	Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia, 26 April 1903
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Painter
Died:	Illness whilst a prisoner of war, Borneo, 21 March 1945, aged 41 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Gunner, NX19307
31 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX19307, 2nd/15th Field Regiment
21 Mar 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, NX19307, 2nd/15th Field Regiment

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Walter Havelock BEER was born in Mudgee in NSW on 26th April, 1903

His parents were Arthur Ernest BEER & Mary Jane SMITH who married in Mudgee in 1895

He married Evelyne Isabella NURTHEN in Sydney in 1940

Walter died of Illness in the Sandakan POW Camp in Borneo whilst a prisoner of war of the Japanese

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His brother Darcy Septimus BEER (SN 84477) also served in the Army during WW2 and was discharged in 1945