EAREA, Harry James Manning
| Service Number: | NX47295 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 July 1940, Taree, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Taree, New South Wales, Australia, 14 October 1918 |
| Home Town: | Bohnock, Greater Taree, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Taree Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farm Labourer |
| Died: | Died of Illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 26 January 1944, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Plot 1, Row C, Grave 53 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Mitchells Island WW2 & Korea Honour Roll, Taree Honour Rolls |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Lance Corporal, NX47295 | |
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| 23 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Taree, New South Wales | |
| 28 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, NX47295, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion | |
| 28 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Lance Corporal, NX47295, 4th Infantry Training Battalion (6th Infantry Brigade) Enlisted in Newcastle | |
| 12 Nov 1940: | Transferred Lance Corporal, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion | |
| 29 Jul 1941: | Embarked Lance Corporal, NX47295, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion, Embarked on ship Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt (HMT FF) | |
| 17 Nov 1943: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore | |
| 26 Jan 1944: | Involvement Lance Corporal, NX47295, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement NX47295 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Harry James Manning EAREA was born on 14th October, 1918 in Taree, NSW
His parents were Hamon EAREA and Sarah Harriet MATTERSON who married on 4th August, 1909 in Grafton, NSW
Known siblings for Harry were his sisters, Muriel, Ruby & Laura
He enlisted in Newcastle on 28th August, 1940 & embarked to Singapore on the ship Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt (HMT FF) on 29th July, 1941 from Sydney
Harry became a Prisoner of War on 17th November, 1943 in Malaya and died of dysentery & beri beri on 26th January, 1944 - he is buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Thailand and his name is honoured at the Australian War Memorial
The inscription at the cemetery states
"HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONE, EVER REMEMBERED"
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There is a monument in Sydney to the 2/30th Battalion (see link & photo)
It is a tribute to the men of the battalion who sailed from the Finger Wharf in Woolloomooloo Bay on the Dutch vessel, Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt on 29th July, 1941 for active service in the Singapore/Malayan campaign. It is also a tribute to the memory of those men of the Battalion who did not survive to make the return journey to the same wharf in October 1945
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