William Edward (Bill) HARRIS

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HARRIS, William Edward

Service Number:	17804
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR)
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 8 October 1945
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Bowel Cancer, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 28 May 2019, aged 73 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

Vietnam War Service

10 May 1967:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Corporal, 17804, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR)

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Biography contributed by Susan Harris

Bill spent 6 years in the army, serving first in the Borneo/Malaya conflict, before going to Vietnam. He was involved in the TET offensive.

Away from the army, he started in the meatworks at 13, working with his father. He did an appreticeship at the Telegraph Newspaper Office in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane, to learn how to be a printer, something he did until his mid 50s when he retired.

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