Oscar Theodore FUHRMAN-LUCK

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FUHRMAN-LUCK, Oscar Theodore

Service Numbers:	411633, QX8083
Enlisted:	31 March 1937, Brisbane, Queensland
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	2nd/7th Field Company (Squadron) RAE
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, 30 December 1918
Home Town:	Zillmere, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer/Forestry worker
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

Non Warlike Service

31 Mar 1937:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 411633, Brisbane, Queensland

World War 2 Service

26 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX8083
26 May 1940:	Enlisted Private, QX8083, Rockhampton, Queensland
11 May 1941:	Wounded Sapper, QX8083, 2nd/7th Field Company (Squadron) RAE, Siege of Tobruk, GSW (foot)
27 Jul 1942:	Imprisoned El Alamein
10 Sep 1945:	Discharged Sapper, QX8083, 2nd/7th Field Company (Squadron) RAE
10 Sep 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX8083

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

27 Jul 1942: Taken prisoner of war at El Alamein by German troops when overrun by armoured vehicles.

07 Feb 1945: Escaped Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) and recaptured 3 days later.

19 Feb 1945: Escaped again from hotel in Oberjellen with WX12113 Pte. Arthur John Coffey (2/32nd Infantry Batt) and WX12120 Pte. William Noel Hoffman (2/32nd infantry Batt) and stayed with partisans.

14 May 1945: Made own way to American Army lines at Pilsen (Czechoslovakia).

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