People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

4 July, 1920
Nyngan, New South Wales, Australia

Death

2010 (aged ~ 89)
New South Wales, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• English

Occupation

• army officer
• bank employee
• soldier

Military Service

• World War II
• 9th Division
• Battle of El Alamein, 1942
• Battle of Finschhafen, 1943
• Battle of North Borneo, 1945
• Battle of Sio, 1943-44
• Battle of Tobruk, 1941
• Salamaua–Lae campaign, 1943
• 2/17th Battalion

Awards

• Military Cross

Groups

• Thirty-Niners

Workplaces

• Rural Bank of New South Wales