Mervyn Leslie AUER

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AUER, Mervyn Leslie

Service Numbers:	Q106680, QX60251
Enlisted:	9 February 1943
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	64th Infantry Battalion (BCOF)
Born:	Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 15 January 1922
Home Town:	Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Cane Cutter
Died:	Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 10 November 1979, aged 57 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Bundaberg General Cemetery, Queensland Queensland Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

9 Feb 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q106680
8 Sep 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q106680, ex Cairns to Port Moresby
28 Jan 1944:	Involvement Private, Q106680, also QX60251
28 Jan 1944:	Involvement Private, QX60251, also Q106680
28 Jan 1944:	Enlisted
28 Jan 1944:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX60251, 64th Infantry Battalion (BCOF)
20 May 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX60251, ex Lae to Brisbane per Sea Flasher
16 Jun 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX60251, ex Brisbane to Morotai per Sea Barb
25 Aug 1945:	Transferred Private, 64th Infantry Battalion (BCOF)
19 Jan 1946:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX60251, 64th Infantry Battalion (BCOF), ex Ambon, Borneo to Brisbane per HMS Glengyle
19 Sep 1946:	Discharged
19 Sep 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX60251, 64th Infantry Battalion (BCOF)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Mervyn Leslie Auer (Service No:QX60251) first enlisted in the ACMF (Private; Service No:Q106680) on 9 February 1943 and was attached to 1 ARD. Private Auer was in New Guinea when he enlisted 'in the field' in the AIF on 28 January 1944. Private Auer served in New Guinea (8 September 1943 - 20 May 1944) and in Borneo with 64th Infantry Battalion BCOF (16 June 1945 - 19 January 1946). He was Discharged on 19 September 1946.

Born in 1922 in Bundaberg QLD, Mervyn was the third of six children of William Leslie Auer (b1897 in Mudgee, NSW) and Bertha Elizabeth Jean Deegan (b1894 in Bundaberg, QLD). William (a Labourer) and Bertha married in 1917 in Bundaberg, QLD where they raised theirf amily and William was a Labourer.

Mervyn was a Cane Cutter before enlisting in the Army, and in 1947 he married Hazel Jean Rath (b1924 in Bundaberg, QLD). Mervyn and Hazel settled in Bundaberg where they raised their family and Mervyn was a Fireman until the late 1960s when he worked as a Builder's Labourer. Mervyn died in 1979 and Hazel in 2012.

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