Soldier profiles

Name : HUNT, LOUIS
Service Number : VX46581
Date of Birth : 20/10/1919
Place of Birth : COLAC, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : FRAME HAND
Date of Enlistment : 13/07/1940
Locality on Enlistment : GEELONG EAST, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : HUNT, GEORGE
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : SYRIA
Actions : BALATE RIDGE (SYRIA)
Wounded (date / details) : GUNSHOT WOUNDS ON BACK AND LEFT ARM (SYRIA)
Discharged : 28/02/1943
Date Died : N/A
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 : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6137205 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll

Background : Son of George Hunt.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 9.5 inches, brown eyes, dark complexion, dark hair. Marks / scars : scar both knees & left arm, gunshot wounds on back & left arm. Full time war service : A.I.F. which included 961 days active service (693 days within Australia & overseas). Operational service : Middle East area (embarked from Australia 07/04/1941, disembarked in Australia 30/10/1942). War badge no. A12119. Discharge certificate no. 42373.

Service record
13/07/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
20/09/1940 Transferred to 2/2 Pioneer Training Battalion Hamilton, Victoria from Recruit Reception Depot.
01/02/1941 Transferred to 6 Training Battalion Darley Camp, Victoria.
01/02/1941 Transferred from 2/2 Pioneer Training Battalion.
28/02/1941 Transferred to S/C Engineering Training Depot Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
28/02/1941 Transferred from 6 Training Battalion Darley Camp, Victoria.
01/04/1941 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria.
02/04/1941 Posted from Engineering Training Depot Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
08/04/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. N.N.).
03/05/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
27/06/1941 Wounded in action (no date given).
27/06/1941 Wounded in action multiple gunshot wounds.
30/06/1941 Wounded in action multiple gunshot wounds. Authorised from 2/1 Casualty Clearing Station.
02/07/1941 Evacuated to 1 Australian General Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and transferred to X list.
12/09/1941 Evacuated from 1 Australian General Hospital to 1 Australian Convalescent Depot.
16/12/1941 Medical class - assessed as fit for duties other than active service with forward formations by medical board.
29/12/1941 Discharged from 1 Australian Convalescent Depot and marched out to 1 Australian Depot Battalion.
29/12/1941 Marched in from 1 Australian Convalescent Depot.
02/01/1942 Marched into Pioneer Training Battalion from Depot Battalion.
02/01/1942 Marched out to Australian Pioneer Training Battalion.
02/01/1942 Marched in ex 1 Australian Depot Battalion.
03/01/1942 Detached duty 8 Australian Special Hospital.
26/02/1942 Rejoined unit from 8 Australian Special Hospital.
08/06/1942 Marched out to Headquarters Australian Imperial Forces (Middle East) Reinforcement Depot Staging Camp.
08/06/1942 Marched in.
11/06/1942 Marched out to 1 Australian Depot Battalion.
11/06/1942 Marched in.
30/10/1942 Disembarked Sydney, New South Wales ex Port Phillips.
30/10/1942 Entrained for Victoria Lines of Communication area.
31/10/1942 Marched into General Details Depot Caulfield, Victoria from overseas.
17/11/1942 Marched into General Details Depot ex disembarkation leave.
28/02/1943 Discharged.