Soldier profiles

Name : COLEMAN, KENNETH JOHN
Service Number : VX31556
Date of Birth : 20/09/1910
Place of Birth : ALBURY, NSW
Known as : KEN
Occupation on Enlistment : FARMER
Date of Enlistment : 12/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : ALBURY, NSW
Place of Enlistment : ROYAL PARK, VIC
Next of Kin : COLEMAN, D
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : DRIVER
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 :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 22/05/1942
Date Died : 26/06/1973
Age at Death : 62
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 6220718 [DIGITISED], Barcode 9271198 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll

Background :

Service & personal summary Son of Ernest John Coleman. At enlistment : single. No previous military experience (had joined the Militia voluntarily 01/01/1935). At discharge : height 6 feet 0 inches, blue eyes, medium complexion, brown hair. Marital status : single. Marks / scars : appendix operation scar, gunshot wound chest (right haemothorax). Full time war service : A.I.F. which included 710 days active service (335 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East. War badge no. 6263. Discharge certificate no. 27503 (medically unfit for service not occasioned by his own fault).

Service record
12/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Royal Park, Victoria.
13/06/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
13/06/1940 Appointed Special Group III MT Driver 6/- per day.
27/09/1940 Appointed Special Group III terminated pay 5/- per day.
28/03/1941 Appointed acting Lance Corporal Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria.
08/04/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. N.N.).
18/04/1941 Admitted ship's hospital.
03/05/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
04/05/1941 Evacuated from ship's hospital to 2 Australian General Hospital with ????? fibula? and transferred to X list.
23/05/1941 Transferred from 2 Australian General Hospital to 1 Australian Convalescent Depot Middle East with sprained? ankle.
02/06/1941 Discharged from 1 Australian Convalescent Depot to Pioneer Training Battalion.
07/06/1941 Marched out from Pioneer Training Battalion to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
07/06/1941 Taken on strength 2/2 Pioneer Battalion from Pioneer Training Battalion.
11/06/1941 Marched in from 1 Australian General Hospital to X list Pioneer Training Battalion.
Wounded in action no date given.
27/06/1941 Wounded in action multiple gunshot wounds.
30/06/1941 Wounded in action multiple gunshot wounds evacuated to 2/1 Casualty Clearing Station.
29/07/1941 Evacuated to 2 Australian General Hospital (gunshot wound multiple back) and transferred to X list.
11/10/1941 Evacuated from 2 Australian General Hospital to hospital ship Vita Middle East.
17/10/1941 Transferred from hospital ship Vita to 5 Australian General Hospital.
25/11/1941 Transferred from 5 Australian General Hospital (gunshot wound, chest) to 2 Australian General Hospital.
19/12/1941 Medical classification assessed as "C2" temporarily unfit for service by medical board 08/12/1941 confirmed Middle East.
18/02/1942 Embarked Middle East on hospital ship S.S. Oranje for return to Australia as medically unfit.
28/02/1942 Court of inquiry at sea on the Oranje : loss of kit? by fire.
08/03/1942 Disembarked Melbourne, Victoria. Reason for return : gunshot wound chest.
08/03/1942 Marched in ex Netherlands hospital ship.
08/03/1942 Granted disembarkation leave.
20/03/1942 Discharged from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria to Reception Camp, Caulfield, Victoria.
23/03/1942 Disposal : leave postponed?
23/03/1942 Evacuated from Southern Command Reception Camp to 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
23/03/1942 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria gunshot wound chest.
20/04/1942 Transferred from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria to Reception Camp, Caulfield, Victoria.
22/05/1942 Discharged.