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AITCHISON, Garth Francis
Personal Details
Service Number: | QX24186 |
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Enlisted: | 13 October 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/12th Field Ambulance |
Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, 13 January 1921 |
Home Town: | Nundah, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | HMAHS Centaur - Lost at sea, At sea (off Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), 14 May 1943, aged 22 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on: Sydney Memorial Panel 2 Roll of Honor Melbourne ROll of Honour Canberra, Sydney Memorial, Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gold Coast - AHS Centaur Memorial, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital Centaur Wing, Sydney Memorial (Sydney War Cemetery) Rookwood |
Service History
World War 2 Service
13 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Private, QX24186, Army Training Units, enlisted Brisbane, Queensland | |
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13 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX24186, 2nd/12th Field Ambulance | |
14 May 1943: | Involvement Private, QX24186, 2nd/12th Field Ambulance, RAN Operations - 'SW Pacific / Indian Ocean 1941-43', Lost at Sea HMAHS Centaur |
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Son of Angus Garnet Aitchison and Sylvia Margaret Aitchison; husband of Doreen May Aitchison, of Northgate, Queensland.
2/12 Field Ambulance
Killed in action when Hospital Ship Centaur was sunk by enemy action off the Queensland Coast