HALLORAN, Norman Leo
| Service Number: | N199946 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 November 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9 Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | Gulgong, New South Wales, Australia , 11 April 1916 |
| Home Town: | Gulgong, Mid-Western Regional, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Ploughman |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Pacific Islands, 5 February 1945, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea Cemetery A4 B, 18, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Molong Armed Forces Personnel Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, N199946 | |
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| 14 Nov 1941: | Enlisted Private, N199946, 9 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
| 14 Nov 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N199946, 9 Infantry Battalion AMF |
Non Warlike Service
| 23 Mar 1943: | Embarked Private, N199946, 9 Infantry Battalion AMF, Embarked Duntroon Townsville Disembarked Port Morseby | |
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| 29 Mar 1943: | Embarked N199946, 9 Infantry Battalion AMF, M/O to 9th Infantry Battalion - Embarked per SS Canberra | |
| 28 Aug 1944: | Embarked Private, N199946, Port Moresby - Disembarked Cairns Embarked 'Katoomba' Cairns and Disembarked Madang |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Nov 1944: | Embarked Private, N199946, Embarked 'Santa Monica' Madang Disembarked Bougainville | |
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| 5 Feb 1945: | Wounded Private, N199946, Evacuated to 11 Field AMB (GWS - rifle - abdomen, perforated rectum and bladder) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Noeline Knight-Gill
Shot by a sniper during a march, and according to another soldier serving with him, he told medics to save others, instead of him. He later died from rifle wounds to the abdomen, perforated rectum and bladder. After moving his body three times he is now buried in Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery A4 B 18. (Originally buried in the Field - Map ref: 778794, then reburied in Torokina War Cemetery - Plat B row A, Grave 8).
Norman was very enterprising. One day while working, he tore his trousers and he mended them using some hairs from a horse tail. He always carried a needle.
He was a Ploughman at Guntawang, Gulgong NSW - now a famous horse stud. One day while ploghing a man from Forbes, NSW pulled up and watched him for quite a while. THis man was so impressed by his straight ploughing that he went home and wrote a letter, address it to 'The Ploughman of Guntawang' and offered him a jonb. He didn't take it.,
Harold (his brother) and Norman were both called up at the same time and left Molong on the same night. They were in training camps together at Maitland, Greta and Queensland. They were both in New Guinea at the same time, although in different companies.
When children, Norman and Harold were never allowed to have a gun on their property, so they went out and bought one and left it hidden in a stump and used it when their father wasn't around.
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