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DUFFY, Henry Walter James
Service Number: | QX53395 |
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Enlisted: | 13 April 1943 |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 47th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Maryborough Qld., 10 December 1918 |
Home Town: | Bauple, Fraser Coast, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Killed in Action, New Guinea, 5 September 1943, aged 24 years |
Cemetery: |
Lae War Cemetery N B 10 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Maryborough 47th Battalion Fallen Comrades HB, Tiaro Shire Honour Roll WW2, Tiaro War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Corporal, QX53395 | |
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13 Apr 1943: | Enlisted | |
13 Apr 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX53395, 47th Infantry Battalion, Papua New Guinea | |
5 Sep 1943: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Michael James Duffy and Bertha Duffy
Husband of Joyce Isabelle Duffy, of Kenilworth, Queensland.
HE HATH FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. ALWAYS DEARLY REMEMBERED
A/CPL. H. DUFFY
DIES IN ACTION
Word has been received by Mrs. J. Duffy, 'Ocean View,' Bauple, that her husband, Acting-Corporal Henry Duffy, was killed in action in New Guinea on September 3. A/Cpl. Duffy, who is the second son of Mrs. A. Mohr and the late Mr. M. Duffy, Gundiah, was well known in the Gundiah, Bauple and Kingaroy districts.