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HARTSHORN, Ronald Gordon
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | NX152874 |
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Enlisted: | 9 March 1942, Gundagai, New South Wales |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 47 Infantry Battalion AMF |
Born: | Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia, 25 June 1923 |
Home Town: | Brungle, Tumut Shire, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Brungle, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Dairy farmer |
Died: | Killed in Action, New Guinea, 20 August 1943, aged 20 years |
Cemetery: |
Lae War Cemetery |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gundagai Anzac Grove War Memorial, Gundagai District Roll of Honour WW2, Gundagai War Memorial, Maryborough 47th Battalion Fallen Comrades HB |
Biography
Born 1922 to Albert Arthur George and Eleanor Maude Hartshorn . They were farmers in the the beautiful valley of Brungle. He had 9 brothers and 1 sister. He probably helped out in the dairy. He lost his Mum in 1931 and lost his life in 1943 not so long after his 21st birthday.