AUSTRALIAN COMMANDOS Murray, Harold John Joseph

John Robertson

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  • SURNAME
Murray
  • FORENAME
Harold John Joseph
  • UNIT
M Special Unit
  • RANK
Lieutenant + Captain
  • NUMBER
VX 81160
  • AWARD
Military Cross,Silver Star (US)
  • PLACE
New Guinea 1943
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 13.11.1898 Bowral,New South Wales (1896 falsified when enlisted)
son of James Francis and Rachel Esther (nee Gray) Murray
order-man in timber-yard,Sydney,New South Wales
enlisted AIF 11.5.1915
2 Infantry Bn (Private to Sergeant 2453)
awarded D.C.M. for France 1917
commissioned 1.6.1918 (2Lt 2 Bn)
Lieutenant November 1918
discharged 10.8.1919
moved to New Ireland,New Guinea February 1921
resided Kavieng,New Ireland
copra and coffee planter and timber and bottled mineral water trader
escaped to Australia 23.1.1942
Lieutenant AIF 4.8.1942 Caulfield,Victoria
Z Special Unit
M Special Unit 1943
Captain February 1944
discharged 18.2.1946
Lakuramau Plantation,near Kavieng
retired to Queensland 1960
married Florence Irene Johnston 11.3.1930 (died)
married Mary Morrison 8.3.1950
no children
died 22.10.1968 Innisfail,Queensland
cremated
 
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