ZSU Harlem, Donald Alfred Lawrence (Don)

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Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Harlem
  • FORENAME
Donald Alfred Lawrence (Don)
  • UNIT
A.I.F.
  • RANK
Lieutenant
  • NUMBER
SX1719
  • AWARD
Mention in Despatches
  • PLACE
North Borneo 1945
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Op.AGAS
Born 31.8.1920 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Son of Bertram Julius (WWI veteran) and Laurie Hannah Harlem, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Brother of Athol Asher Harlem, died 31.8.1943 age 21 as 408833 Flight Sergeant (pilot) RAAF with RAF 199 Squadron
Educated Melbourne University
Enlisted 11.12.1939 Adelaide, South Australia
Served with the Australian Army in Tobruk
ZSU 1943 (ZSU Service Number 69252)
Discharged 19.12.1945
Married Elaine Betty Musgrove Sansom 16.11.1946, Hobart, Tasmania (died 4.2.2003)
3 daughters : Suzanne and Ruth (living in Australia), Jane (living in England)
Justice of the Peace
President and Vice-President of Hobart Toastmasters Club, Tasmania
Employment Record as follows:
Personnel Manager, Myers, Tasmania
Harlem & Associates Management Consultancy, MD, Hobart, Tasmania
On the Board of the Design Council of Australia
President of Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Tasmania Board of Police
Voluntary Work:
President TPI Association
Member of Legacy (represented war widows in appealing the right to a War Pension (won every case)
Featured in the book "Blood on Borneo" written by Jack Sue
Died of cancer, Hobart, Tasmania, 19.4.1986
Information and photo courtesy of his daughter, Jane
 
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