Harold James DORSE

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Service Number:	NX21813
Enlisted:	27 May 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/30th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Cessnock New South Wales, Australia , 11 February 1915
Home Town:	Cessnock, Cessnock, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness - Prisoner of War, Burma, 24 January 1944, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) A16 E 9
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX21813
27 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX21813, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion

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Son of Augustus Albert Dorse and Sarah Elizabeth nee Melling

DEARLY LOVED AND EVER REMEMBERED BY SAD MOTHER, BROTHERS & SISTERS

Brother Cpl Gordon Dorse was a POW. Sister Beryl a Corporal RAAF.

Survived by his mother, brothers Gordon and Ronald, sisters Winifred Vale, Ina Mitchell, Amelia Davies, Charlotte Crossley and Beryl Dorse.

Died from Dysentery and Beri Beri.

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