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BUTLER, Edward Joseph
Personal Details
| Service Number: | QX64932 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 9 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | ALLORA, 31 March 1917 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died at sea (Montevideo Maru), South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial, Warwick War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, QX64932 | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Jun 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 9 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX64932 | |
| 1 Jul 1942: | Discharged |
Personal Stories
From the farm to the jungle...lost at sea
Eddie grew up in a big farming family on the fertile black soil plains of Goomburra, near Allora (between Toowoomba and Warwick).
He was, for a while, training to be a priest at the seminary in Sydney. He had returned to the farm to help his family though hitherto going to New Guinea.
His nephew (my father) tells a humorous, but alas poignant, story of receiving a coconut in the post (Dad was living in Inglewood, Qld at the time) from Eddie when he was stationed up in PNG with his name and address engraved on it.
He was lost at sea in 1942.
His two sisters, Vera and Winnie, stayed on the Goomburra farm right up until their last days in the early 1990's.
Submitted 23 April 2022 by Andrew Dowling
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