Soldier profiles

Name : HEALEY, ALFRED ERNEST
Service Number : V85377
Date of Birth : 04/08/1884
Place of Birth : NEWMARKET, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : BOOT REPAIRER
Date of Enlistment : 24/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : COBURG, VIC
Place of Enlistment : ROYAL PARK, VIC
Next of Kin : HEALEY, ERNEST
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 :
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 27/03/1943
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 6286280 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll

Background : Father of Ernest Healey.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. Served in Boer War 1906. At discharge : height 5 feet 9 inches, grey eyes, dark complexion, grey hair. Marks / scars : birthmark on left side. Full time war service : A.I.F. 24/06/1940 to 27/03/1943 which included 1007 days active service (660 days within Australia & 347 days overseas). Discharge certificate no. 22259 due to employment at munitions defence factory.

Service record
24/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Royal Park, Victoria.
25/06/1940 Transferred to No. 5 Australian Imperial Forces Depot, Colac, Victoria.
25/06/1940 Taken on strength.
25/06/1940 To be Sergeant.
23/09/1940 Transferred to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Hamilton, Victoria.
23/09/1940 Taken on strength 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Training Battalion, Hamilton, Victoria from 2/2 Medical Training Regiment, Colac, Victoria.
07/01/1941 Detached to No.6 Horse Trooper Course, Osbourne House, Geelong, Victoria.
31/01/1941 Rejoined unit from detachment Geelong.
01/02/1941 Transferred to 6 Training Battalion Darley Camp, Victoria.
01/02/1941 Taken on strength from 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Training Battalion.
28/02/1941 Transferred to Southern Command Engineering Training Depot.
28/02/1941 Taken on strength Southern Command Engineering Training Depot Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria from 6 Training Battalion Darley Camp.
17/11/1941 Transferred to 6 Training Battalion Darley Camp, Victoria.
18/11/1941 Transferred from Southern Command Engineering Training Depot and detached 6 Training Battalion.
28/11/1941 Evacuated to 108 Australian General Hospital Darley Camp, Victoria.
28/11/1941 Admitted to 108 Australian General Hospital Darley Camp, Victoria with Pyrexia of Unknown Origin (P.U.O.).
01/12/1941 Rejoined unit from 108 Australian General Hospital Darley Camp, Victoria.
01/12/1941 Discharged from 108 Australian General Hospital Darley Camp, Victoria.
09/12/1941 Evacuated to 106 Australian General Hospital Bonegilla, Victoria. Fractured ribs whilst on leave in Albany.
10/12/1941 Discharged from 106 Australian General Hospital Bonegilla, Victoria.
11/12/1941 Rejoined unit from 106 Australian General Hospital Bonegilla, Victoria.
27/01/1942 Transferred to 10 Infantry Training Battalion Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria.
28/01/1942 Taken on strength from 6 Training Battalion Darley Camp, Victoria.
20/06/1942 Transferred to Reception Camp Watsonia, Victoria.
06/07/1942 Transferred in from Reception Camp.
20/07/1942 Transferred out to 6 Training Battalion.
20/07/1942 Transferred in from 10 Training Battalion.
08/09/1942 Detached to Base Support Area Detention Depot Royal Park, Victoria as guard.
09/09/1942 Attached for duty.
16/11/1942 Detached to Victoria Lines of Communication area.
18/11/1942 Rejoined unit from Holding Compound.
18/11/1942 Transferred to B Class Training Battalion.
18/11/1942 Transferred in from 6 Training Battalion.
28/11/1942 Rejoined unit from detachment Williamstown Racecourse.
02/12/1942 Detached to Williamstown Range.
09/12/1942 Rejoined unit from detachment.
24/02/1943 Transferred to General Details Depot Watsonia, Victoria for release.
24/02/1943 Marched in from 3 Infantry Training Battalion.
27/03/1943 Discharged.