WALKER, Donald Frank
| Service Numbers: | QX50533, Q142711, QX5053 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 April 1942, HQ RAE Training Centre |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 5 Docks Operating Company |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 9 June 1913 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Ipswich Boys' Grammar School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 15 December 1973, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ipswich Soldier's Memorial Hall WW2 |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Lieutenant, QX50533, also Q142711 | |
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| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Lieutenant, Q142711, also QX50533 | |
| 30 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX50533, HQ RAE Training Centre | |
| 27 Dec 1943: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, 5 Docks Operating Company | |
| 24 Mar 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX5053, 5 Docks Operating Company, ex Brisbane to Morotai per Sea Spray | |
| 26 Dec 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX50533, 5 Docks Operating Company, ex Morotai to Brisbane per Westralia | |
| 11 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX50533 | |
| 11 Jan 1946: | Discharged | |
| Date unknown: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX50533 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lieutenant Donald Frank Walker (Service Nos:QX50533/Q142711) served in the AIF between 1942 and 1946. He had served in the RAAF (Leading Aircraftman: Service No:404729) in 1940/1941. Lieutenant Walker served with 5 Docks Operational Coy in Darwin (25 December 1943 - 4 April 1944) and New Guinea (Morotai: 24 March 1945 - 26 December 1945). In January 1946 Lieutenant Walker (as an Officer) was placed on the Reserve List until 1959 when he was placed on the Retired List (National Archives Australia).
Born in 1913 in Ipswich QLD, Don was the sixth of eight children of John Fulton Walker (b1873 in Rosewood on the Darling Downs, QLD) and Ellen Hudson (b1880 in Ipswich, QLD). John (a Coal Miner) and Ellen married in 1900 in Ipswich, QLD where they settled and raised their family. By 1915 John was a Colliery Proprietor at Belgin's Hill in Bundamba, Ipswich QLD.
Don attended Ipswich Boys' Grammar School and completed a mining course at Ipswich Technical College. He was Manager of the Aberdare Colliery, and in 1946 married Rosanna (Rose) Laviah Price (b1919 in Ipswich, QLD). Don and Rose settled in Ipswich QLD where Don was a Colliery Manager. Don died in 1973 and Rose in 1998.