MEYER, Alfred Thomas
| Service Number: | VX60262 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/1st Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment |
| Born: | Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia, 25 March 1917 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, New Guinea, 28 July 1945, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lae War Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bright Memorial Clock Tower |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Gunner, VX60262 | |
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| 26 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, VX60262, 2nd/1st Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment | |
| 26 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX60262 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Alfred was the youngest of two children of David Norman Meyer (born 1891 in Berwick, Victoria) and May Coleman (born 1893 in Bright, Indi, Victoria). David was an Endine Driver in 1914 when he married May and they moved to Lithgow, NSW in 1916 with daughter Margaret. Alfred was three months old when his father died. May returned to Indi, Victoria and remarried in 1933.
Alfred was a Clerk in Melbourne when he enlisted in the Army. He was a Gunner (Service No:VX60262) with the 2/1st Anti Tank Regiment RAA when he was KiA on 28 July 1945 in the Aitape - Wewak Campaign in New Guinea.
In Melbourne in October 1942, Alfred married Joyce Kidd (born 1919 in Armidale, Victoria) at the Holy Advent C of E in Malvern, Victoria. Joyce was also a Clerk and following Alfred's death she remarried in 1947 and died in 2009 in Victoria.