Donald Munro TUCKER MID

TUCKER, Donald Munro

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
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World War 2 Service

31 May 1940: Enlisted Private, VX40784, Caulfield, Victoria
25 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army 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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Biography

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)