FRAZER, Ronald John
Service Number: | QX21860 |
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Enlisted: | 22 July 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Childers, Queensland, Australia, 28 November 1912 |
Home Town: | Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Accidental Injuries, Lababia Ridge, New Guinea, 19 May 1943, aged 30 years |
Cemetery: |
Lae War Cemetery |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bundaberg Civic Centre Memorial Portico |
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Ronald John Frazer (Service No:QX21860) enlisted in the Australian Army on 22 July 1941 and was attached to 29 Infantry Training Battalion. Private Frazer embarked on 16 March 1943 from Townsville to Port Moresby on board the Duntroon with 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion. He Died of Wounds (shrapnel) on 19 May 1943 near Labuban Ridge - 'clearing booby traps' (NAA).
Born in 1912 in Childers QLD, Ronald was the second of three children of John Frazer (b1886 in Dalby, QLD) and Ellen (Nell) Alice Horton (b1889 in Yengarie, QLD). John (a Labourer) and Nell married in 1911 in Maryborough, QLD and settled in Childers QLD where John was a Labourer. In 1914 John was in Sydney NSW when he died. Nell remarried in 1921 and lived in Biggenden, Bundaberg and Brisbane, QLD.
Ronald worked as a Labourer in Tully QLD and in 1941 in Brisbane QLD married Margaret Mary Veronica O'Halloran (b1920 in Glen Innes, NSW). Margaret was living in Bundaberg in 1943 when Ronald was killed in New Guinea. She moved to Dalby, where she died of Pleurisy in 1945.