George Wray (Wray) HAZELDINE

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HAZELDINE, George Wray

Service Numbers:	V160457, VX113799
Enlisted:	16 March 1942
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	21 Field Company RAE AMF
Born:	Portland, Victoria, Australia, 6 February 1923
Home Town:	Portland, Glenelg, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Assistant Cinematograph Operator
Died:	Portland, Wannon, Victoria , 25 June 1957, aged 34 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Portland South Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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World War 2 Service

16 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sapper, V160457, 21 Field Company RAE AMF
13 Sep 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sapper, V160457, 21 Field Company RAE AMF
14 Sep 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, VX113799
22 Jan 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, VX113799, 21 Field Company RAE AMF, ex Brisbane for New Guinea per SS Swarton Rouudt
9 Aug 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, VX113799, 21 Field Company RAE AMF, ex Buna for Brisbane per Alfred G True
11 Nov 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, VX113799

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant George Wray Hazeldine (Service No:VX113799) enlisted in the ACMF (Sapper; Service No:V160457) with 21 Field Coy RAE on 16 March 1942 and then enlisted in the Australian Army on 14 September 1942. Sergeant Hazeldine served with 21 Field Coy RAE in New Guinea (21 January 1943 to 8 August 1944). In June 1945 he was detached to Bribie Heavy Battery and was attached to 21 Field Coy RAE when he was Discharged on 11 November 1946.

The eldest of two children, George (aka Wray) was born in 1923 in Portland, Victoria to Frederick (Charlie) Charles Hazeldine (b1894 in Portland, Victoria) and Ethel Maud Paine (b1890 in Melbourne, Victoria). Charlie (a Labourer in Portland) and Ethel (a Milliner) married in Mt Gambier South Australia, and settled in Portland Victoria where they raised their family. Charlie - also known as Barney in the football world - played football with various district teams and worked as a Council Officer and Projectionist.

Wray worked a Assistant Cinematograph Operator/Motion Picture Engineer in Portland, Victoria where, in 1947 he married Dorothy Jean Cuneen (b1927 in Melbourne, Victoria). Wray and Dorothy settled in Portland where Wray worked as a Caretaker and Projectionist. Wray died in 1957 and Dorothy in 2010.

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