Donald Munro TUCKER MID

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Service Number:	VX40784
Enlisted:	31 May 1940, Caulfield, Victoria
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/8th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia, 15 January 1917
Home Town:	Poowong, South Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Butcher
Died:	Died of wounds, Heidelberg, Victoria, Victoria, Australia, 19 April 1946, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Poowong Cemetery Presbyterian Row D, Grave 97. Also his (DVA) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Wall 23/Row D; AT the Victorian Garden of Remembrance (adjacent to Springvale War Cemetery) within Springvale Necropolis -North Drive- Springvale, Victoria.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

31 May 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX40784, Caulfield, Victoria
25 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, VX40784, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion
15 Sep 1940:	Embarked Sergeant, VX40784, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT S.2, Melbourne
9 Jun 1941:	Involvement Private, VX40784, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion, Syria - Operation Exporter
22 Apr 1942:	Promoted Corporal, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion
3 Jun 1943:	Promoted Sergeant, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion
24 Jan 1945:	Wounded Sergeant, VX40784, 2nd/8th Infantry Battalion, Aitape - Wewak, New Guinea, GSW (right eye)
21 Feb 1946:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, "Distinguished services South-West Pacific area"

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Son of Robert TUCKER and Rhoda Grace (nee SIMPSON) TUCKER

Husband of Joy Alma Mary TUCKER

Born: Donald Tucker, 15/01/1917, Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia (Reg No: 1709/1917).

Death: Donald Munro Tucker, 19/04/1946, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia (Reg No: 5461/1946)