Hugh Kitchener GUTHRIE

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GUTHRIE, Hugh Kitchener

Service Number:	WX19860
Enlisted:	25 February 1942, Enlisted at Claremont, WA
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Claremont, Western Australia, Australia, 8 July 1916
Home Town:	Nedlands, Nedlands, Western Australia
Schooling:	Claremont High School, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 20 October 1943, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery Plot DD, Row A, Grave 11 Headstone inscription reads: Treasured memories always 'Pets of my darling husband and Pal' Roll of Honour - Nedlands, WA,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, West Leederville Town Hall HB1

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lance Corporal, WX19860
25 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Lance Corporal, WX19860, Enlisted at Claremont, WA
25 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, WX19860, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of James Alexander and Mary Elizabeth Guthrie; husband of Joan Irene Guthrie of Bundeena, NSW

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Hugh was the youngest of four children of James Alexander Long Guthrie (born 1882 in Donegal, Ireland) and Mary Elizabeth Smythe (born 1887 in Fremantle, WA). James arrived in Fremantle in December 1903 on board the Ophir. He was a Ward Attendant at Fremantle Asylum in 1903 when he and Mary married. They settled in Claremont and raised their family there. In 1909 James transferred to the new Mental Hospital in Claremont. He became Farm Manager there in 1929, winning many awards over the years at the Royal Show for the Illawarra Short Horn Cattle raised on the farm (Fremantle Welcome Wall; Panel No 347).

Hugh attended Graylands Primary School and Claremont High School and worked as a Clerk for Caltex Oil Coy. He played football for Claremont, and married Joan Irene Sharman (born 1915 in Northam, WA) in 1939. Hugh and Irene settled in Nedlands, and Hugh was a Clerk when he enlisted in the Australian Army in February 1942. Hugh served with 2/28 Infantry Battalion (Lance Corporal; Service No:WX19860) in the El Alamein Campaign. In 1943 he was in New Guinea, involved in the amphibious landing at Red Beach. Hugh was killed by sniper fire at Scarlett Beach on 20 October 1943 (From biography provided by family during plaque dedication (Plaque No:M218A) at Kings Park Honour Ave on 18 August 2012). Brothers William (Bill) James (Corporal; Service No:427643) and Robert (Ed) Edmund (Flying Officer; Service No:406649), and Brother-in-Law Albert Jack Barnett (Flying Officer; Service No:80625) also served in WWII.

Irene remarried, and died in Sydney NSW in 2012.

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