HARPER, Frank Harry Charles Booth
| Service Number: | SX2904 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 May 1940, Wayville, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, SA, 2 April 1920 |
| Home Town: | Dulwich, Burnside, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Papua, 4 December 1942, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea B8 E 13 |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Walkerville St Andrew's Anglican Church WW2 Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, SX2904 | |
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| 17 May 1940: | Involvement Private, SX2904, 27th Infantry Battalion | |
| 17 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX2904, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion, Wayville, SA | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Harry Charles and Olive Annie Harper, of Gilberton, South Australia.
IN GOD'S CARE BRAVELY WE HONOR HIS NAME. EUGENE, LOIS AND MOTHER
Mr. Harry C. harper, painter, of Yorketown, who served with the AIF in the last war, has been advised that his son SX2904 Pte. Frank Harry Charles Boothh Harper, 2nd AIF, died of wounds on Dec. 4th, 1942 in New Guinea, after over two years' service.
HARPER—In loving memory of our dear son and brother, Lieut. Frank Harry Charles Booth Harper, 2/27th Batt., A.I.F., who died of wounds in N.G. on Dec. 4,1942.
They shall not grow old, as we who are
left grow old
Age shall not weary them nor the years
condemn
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them.
—Inserted by his loving father, Harry C.
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