Harry Douglas PALMER

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PALMER, Harry Douglas

Service Number:	V150148
Enlisted:	19 May 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	39th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 9 August 1920
Home Town:	Warrnambool, Warrnambool, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grocer
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua New Guinea, 8 August 1942, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Warrnambool Soldiers' Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement V150148, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit
19 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V150148, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit
5 Dec 1941:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 39th Infantry Battalion
27 Dec 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V150148, 39th Infantry Battalion, ex Sydney for Port Moresby

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Harry Douglas Palmer (Service No:V150148) enlisted on 19 May 1941 and was attached to AASC 4th Division. He was a Private with 39th Infantry Battalion when he embarked from Sydney on 27 December 1941 for Port Moresby, where he served as a Corporal with the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit. Initally reported as MiA, Corporal Palmer was KiA on 8 August 1942.

Born in 1920 in Warrnambool Victoria, Harry was the youngest of two children of George Charles Palmer (b1866 in Tarraville, Victoria) and second wife Gertrude Mary Miller (b1885 at Warracknabeal, Victoria. George (a Carpenter) and Gertrude (a Saleswoman) married in 1913 in Warrnambool, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and George was a Carpenter.

Harry was working as a Grocer when he enlisted in 1941.

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