Soldier profiles
Name : HAMILTON, HAROLD MURRAY
Service Number : 377303 (VX15146)
Date of Birth : 17/03/1918
Place of Birth : WONTHAGGI, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : ACCOUNTANT
Date of Enlistment : 16/05/1940
Locality on Enlistment : SOUTH MELB
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : HAMILTON, KARL
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : MAJOR
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/3 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : SYRIA, NEW GUINEA, BORNEO
Actions : TARAKAN (BORNEO)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 19/12/1945
Date Died : 17/05/2009
Age at Death : 91
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : Mentioned in Despatches (Captain in 20th Brigade) for exceptional services in the field in New Guinea. London Gazette 08/03/1945 Page 1305, position 136. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 15/03/1945 Page 651, position 76.
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial Awards Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (NO ENTRY FOUND), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial
Background : Attended Maffra State and Higher Elementary Schools, Orbost Higher Elementary School, Caulfield Grammar School and Melbourne University. With 2/2 Pioneer Battalion to 1941, Headquarters 20th Brigade to 1944, 2/3 Pioneer battalion to 1945. Citizen Military Forces 1948 to 1968 as colonel. Husband of Judyth Margaret Thomas. With Bank of New South Wales 1936 to 1953. Liberal Party Member of Parliament 1967 to 1982. Letter from Harold Murray Hamilton to Basil Pugh. He mentions Stuart ?Snow? Haldane, who was a great friend of Basil?s.
