Soldier profiles

Name : CARTER, OSCAR HENRY
Service Number : NX90421
Date of Birth : 27/06/1920
Place of Birth : MULLUMBIMBY, NSW
Known as : OSSIE
Occupation on Enlistment : BANANA GROWER
Date of Enlistment : 26/02/1942
Locality on Enlistment : MULLUMBIMBY, NSW
Place of Enlistment : PADDINGTON, NSW
Next of Kin : CARTER, MARY ELLEN
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 14 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY TRAINING BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : NEW GUINEA
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 21/10/1944
Date Died : ??/??/2016
Age at Death : 96?
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 4609856 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll

Background :

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 11 inches, brown eyes, medium complexion, brown hair. Marks / scars : right hernia scar, 1.5 inch oblique scar left knee and left loin to buttock. Full time war service : A.I.F. 26/02/1942 to 21/10/1944 which included 969 days active service (720 days within Australia & 202 days overseas). Operational service : New Guinea area (embarked from Australia 25/07/1943, disembarked in Australia 11/02/1944). War badge no. A54837. Discharge certificate no. 55800.

Service record
26/02/1942 Taken on strength General Details Depot Sydney, New South Wales.
26/02/1942 Taken on strength 8 Infantry Training Battalion Dubbo, New South Wales.
28/02/1942 Granted leave without pay 28/02/1942 to 20/03/1942.
21/03/1942 Marched out to 8 Infantry Training Battalion.
28/04/1942 Taken on strength 32 Infantry Training Battalion Bathurst, New South Wales ex 8 Infantry Training Battalion.
02/05/1942 Admitted 104 Australian General Hospital Bathurst, New South Wales with influenza and transferred to X list.
05/05/1942 Discharged.
28/07/1942 Admitted 104 Australian General Hospital Bathurst, New South Wales with influenza and transferred to X list.
01/08/1942 Rejoined ex hospital and struck off X list.
01/08/1942 Transferred to 14 Infantry Training Battalion Bathurst, New South Wales.
01/08/1942 Taken on strength ex 32 Infantry Training Battalion.
03/09/1942 Transferred to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Bathurst, New South Wales.
04/09/1942 Taken on strength ex 14 Infantry Training Battalion 2 Military District (New South Wales).
29/01/1943 Entrained from 5 Military District (Western Australia) for 3 Military District (Victoria).
26/03/1943 Entrained for 1 Military District (Queensland).
12/05/1943 Granted 3 days leave with pay. Extension 4 days leave without pay.
09/06/1943 Rejoined unit ex leave.
01/07/1943 Granted proficiency pay.
25/07/1943 Embarked Townsville, Queensland.
28/07/1943 Disembarked Port Moresby, New Guinea.
18/10/1943 Evacuated to III Casualty Clearing Station with clinical dysentery and transferred to X list.
27/10/1943 Evacuated from III Casualty Clearing Station to 2/5 Australian General Hospital New Guinea.
16/11/1943 Discharged from 2/5 Australian General Hospital to unit.
18/11/1943 Marched out from New Guinea Details Depot to unit.
18/11/1943 Taken on strength from New Guinea Details Depot - off X list.
08/02/1944 Embarked Port Moresby, New Guinea on H.M.A.S. Kanimbla.
10/02/1944 Disembarked Townsville, Queensland.
07/10/1944 Transferred to General Details Depot New South Wales Lines of Communication area for discharge.
21/10/1944 Discharged being required for employment in an essential occupation.