Roy Colin LAWRENCE

LAWRENCE, Roy Colin

    Service Numbers: SX1582, SX21601
    Enlisted: 5 December 1939
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
    Born: Adelaide, South Australia, 20 August 1923
    Home Town: Kent Town, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Arc Welder
    Died: Cancer, Kalara, Belair, South Australia, 25 October 1982, aged 59 years
    Cemetery: Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
    Plot 41/808B Derrick Gardens
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    World War 2 Service

    5 Dec 1939: Involvement Private, SX1582, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
    5 Dec 1939: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX1582
    5 Dec 1939: Discharged
    5 Dec 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX1582
    25 Aug 1942: Involvement Gunner, SX21601
    25 Aug 1942: Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Gunner, SX21601, G Heavy Battery, Fort Largs, SA
    25 Aug 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX21601
    18 Dec 1942: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, SX21601, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Embarked Townsville per "Taroona" for New Guinea
    24 Dec 1942: Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX21601, Milne Bay - Papua New Guinea WW2
    22 May 1944: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, SX21601, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, From Milne Bay New Guinea Per "Sea Flasher" disembarked Brisbane
    6 Aug 1945: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, SX21601, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Embarked Brisbane per "Gorgan" disembarked Wewak NG 13 August 1945u per
    5 Dec 1945: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, SX21601, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Embarked Wewak per HMS Vindex. Disembarked Sydney
    3 Jan 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, SX21601, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Discharged Hampstead Gardens, South Australia
    3 Jan 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX21601
    3 Jan 1946: Discharged

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    Biography contributed by Joy Dalgleish

    Roy married Lillian Joyce Smith on 27 March 1945. They had 5 children and were later divorced.  Roy continued to suffer with bouts of malaria attributed to his war service and became an alcoholic.

    Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

    In 1939 Lawrence enlisted and was discharged the same day because when he went home in uniform his mother marched him straight back to Keswick Barracks, he didn’t enlist again until 1942.

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