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Background : Married to Phyllis May Swanson.
Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 6 inches, blue eyes, fair complexion, dark brown hair. Marital status : married. Dependent children : 1 16 years & older. Marks / scars : right buttock. Full time war service : A.I.F. 27/01/1942 to 17/01/1946 which included 1452 days active service (846 days within Australia & 529 days overseas). Operational service : New Guinea area (embarked from Australia 26/07/1943, disembarked in Australia 28/05/1944), Borneo area (embarked from Australia 25/05/1945, disembarked in Australia 31/12/1945). War badge no. 224790. Discharge certificate no. 484074.
Service record
27/01/1942 Taken on strength Australian Imperial Forces Details Depot Caulfield, Victoria. Granted leave without pay. Rejoined unit.
02/02/1942 Transferred from Australian Imperial Forces Details Depot to 10 Training Battalion Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria.
12/03/1942 Transferred to Reception Camp Caulfield, Victoria.
12/03/1942 Transferred in ex Reception Camp. Posted to 5 Pioneer Company Caulfield, Victoria.
12/03/1942 Transferred out to 4 Pioneer Company Caulfield, Victoria.
16/03/1942 Transferred in from 5 Pioneer Company.
24/03/1942 Evacuated to 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
25/03/1942 Admitted left knee injury.
01/04/1942 Transferred to Stonnington Convalescent Hospital, Victoria.
01/04/1942 Admitted traumatic effusion knee.
15/04/1942 Transferred to 107 Convalescent Hospital.
15/04/1942 Admitted traumatic effusion knee.
19/05/1942 Transferred in from 107 Convalescent Hospital Broadmeadows, Victoria.
19/05/1942 Discharged to unit.
27/05/1942 Taken on strength and transferred out to 34 Infantry Training Battalion ex Reception Camp.
27/05/1942 Transferred in from Reception Camp (to 5 Pioneer Company).
23/06/1942 Transferred to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
23/06/1942 Marched out to New South Wales Lines of Communication area.
23/06/1942 Taken on strength ex 34 Infantry Training Battalion.
11/09/1942 Appointed acting Lance Corporal.
26/01/1943 Entrained for 3 Military District (Victoria).
28/01/1943 Marched in 3 Military District (Victoria) ex 5 Military District (Western Australia).
26/03/1943 Entrained for 1 Military District (Queensland).
01/06/1943 Attending 7 Australian Division Signals course from 01/06/1943 to 01/07/1943 and transferred to X list.
15/07/1943 Transferred to 7 Australian Division Signals and struck off X list.
15/07/1943 Taken on strength from 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion.
15/07/1943 Reverted to XXXX at own request.
26/07/1943 Embarked Townsville, Queensland on H.M.A.T. Canberra.
29/07/1943 Disembarked Port Moresby, New Guinea.
28/10/1943 Marched out to attend course New Guinea Force School of Signalling.
28/10/1943 Attending New Guinea Force School of Signalling course No.83.
30/10/1943 Evacuated from New Guinea Force School of Signalling to 47 Australian Convalescent Hospital with dysentery undefined exudate.
11/11/1943 Discharged 47 Australian Convalescent Hospital with dysentery undefined exudate and marched out to New Guinea Force School of Signalling.
28/11/1943 Qualified New Guinea Force School of Signalling, W/T Operator (high grade) course No.83 from 02/11/1943 to 28/11/1943.
01/07/1943 Classified proficient.
28/11/1943 Rejoined unit from New Guinea Force School of Signalling.
24/12/1943 Evacuated to 2/4 Australian Field Ambulance with malaria (benign tertian).
29/12/1943 Evacuated from 2/4 Australian Field Ambulance to III Australian Casualty Clearing Station and transferred to X list.
07/01/1944 Discharged III Australian Casualty Clearing Station to unit.
08/01/1944 Taken on strength from III Australian Casualty Clearing Station.
01/02/1944 Evacuated to 2/5 Australian Field Ambulance with injured right foot.
06/02/1944 Discharged 2/5 Australian Field Ambulance to unit.
06/02/1944 Rejoined unit from 2/5 Australian Field Ambulance.
09/02/1944 Next of kin change of address.
23/05/1944 Embarked Lae, New Guinea on hospital ship Kota Caroe (S.S. Karoa?).
28/05/1944 Disembarked Brisbane, Queensland.
04/06/1944 Evacuated to 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (U.R.T.I.) pneumonitis whilst on leave and transferred to X list.
08/06/1944 Discharged 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (U.R.T.I.) to General Details Depot, Victoria to resume leave.
08/06/1944 Rejoined from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria and resumed leave. Struck off X list.
23/08/1944 Evacuated sick and transferred to X list.
23/08/1944 Admitted Gladstone District Hospital with malaria.
01/05/1944 Graded acting Group I Operator (Signals).
01/05/1944 Forfeited proficiency pay (grade grouped).
31/08/1944 Evacuated Gladstone District Hospital to 2/4 Australian General Hospital with malaria.
07/09/1944 Discharged 2/4 Australian General Hospital with malaria to General Details Depot Queensland Lines of Communication area.
08/09/1944 Marched out from General Details Depot Queensland Lines of Communication area to 7 Division Reception Camp.
16/09/1944 Rejoined from 7 Division Reception Camp and struck off X list.
13/10/1944 Change of address next of kin.
25/04/1945 Grading of Group I Operator confirmed.
25/05/1945 Embarked Cairns, Queensland on U.S.S. LST-666.
13/06/1945 Disembarked Morotai.
22/06/1945 Embarked Morotai on U.S.S. LST-454 for Balikpapan, Borneo.
15/09/1945 Promoted to Corporal.
23/12/1945 Transferred to holding strength Leave and Transit Depot Victoria Lines of Communication area (demob).
23/12/1945 Embarked Balikpapan, Borneo.
31/12/1945 Disembarked Brisbane, Queensland.
03/01/1946 Marched in for disposal Camp Pell, Victoria.
19/01/1946 Discharged, Victoria.