HARDIE, Walter Sydney
| Service Number: | Q46345 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 20 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Supply Depot Companies / Platoons |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 18 December 1915 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 31 March 1984, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 20 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q46345, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons | |
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| 25 Mar 1946: | Involvement Private, Q46345 | |
| 25 Mar 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q46345, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons |
Walter Sydney Hardie
Walter Sydney Hardie (18 December 1914 • Ipswich, QLD - 1984 • Ipswich, QLD) was the 8th of 10 children of George E Haride and Joan Rankin Kitching of Ipswich QLD, and the younger brother of Charles Hardie.
Walter served in the Australian Army as a Private (Service No: Q46345) having enlisted in East Ipswich, QLD on 20 March 1941.
Walter was discharged on 25 March 1946. His Posting at Discharge was the 71 Australian Supply Depot Platoon
Submitted 19 December 2019 by Chris Buckley
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Wal was the eighth of ten children of George E Hardie (b1871 in Scotland) and Joan Rankin Kitching (b1879 in Scotland). Joan immigrated with her parents and siblings to Maryborough, QLD in 1882 on board the Shenir and George arrived in Adelaide, South Australia with his parents and siblings in 1879 on board the Oaklands. George (a Miner) and Joan married in Hervey Bay, QLD in 1899 and settled in Ipswich, QLD where George was an Engine Driver.
Wal was working as a Labourer in Ipswich, QLD when he enlisted in the ACMF in March 1941. He was a Private (Service No:Q46345) and served with Field Butchery Coy and 71 Supply Depot Platoon in the Northern Territory (25 November 1942 - 24 January 1945).
Working in Ipswich as an Engine Driver after the War, Wal moved to Sydney NSW in the 1950s and married Phyllis Joan Peggy Fitzpatrick (nee Garrard; b1916 in Wandsworth, London) in 1960 in Sydney, NSW. Wal and Phyllis lived in Sydney - where Wal worked as an Engine Driver before moving to Eden Monaro in the 1970s - where Phyllis was the Postmistress. In the 1980s they moved to Ipswich, QLD where Wal died in 1984. Phyllis later returned to Eden-Monaro NSW where she died in 2008.
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