HARDIE, Douglas James
| Service Numbers: | QX12515, QX12515 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 1 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Signaller |
| Last Unit: | 9th Division Signals |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 28 February 1917 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, 6 March 2012, aged 95 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Port Macquarie General Cemetery Innes Gardens Memorial Park |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 1 Jul 1940: | Involvement QX12515 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Jul 1940: | Enlisted | |
| 1 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX12515 | |
| 9 Apr 1941: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), Signaller, QX12515, 9th Division Signals, ex Sydney per Overseas Convoy US 10 | |
| 6 Mar 1943: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), Signaller, QX12515, 9th Division Signals, ex Middle East per 'L2' for Sydney | |
| 6 Aug 1943: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX12515, 9th Division Signals, ex Cairns per Allen for Milne Bay | |
| 8 Dec 1943: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), Signaller, 26th Infantry Battalion, Signals Section | |
| 2 Mar 1944: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), Signaller, QX12515, 9th Division Signals, ex Finschaven per Cape Perpetua for Brisbane | |
| 1 Jan 1945: | Discharged |
Douglas (Doug) James Hardie
Douglas James Hardie (26 February 1916 • Ipswich, QLD - 6 March 2012 • Port Macquarie, New South Wales) was the 9th of 10 children of George E Hardie and Jessie Rankin Kitching of Ipswich QLD. He was the youngest brother of Charles and Walter Sydney Hardie.
Doug was a Labourer in Ipswich QLD when he enlisted in the Australian Army as a Signalman (Service N0: QX12515) on 1 July 1940 at East Ipswich, QLD. Doug served in the Middle East, and New Guinea with Signals 1 Company A 9 Australian Division, and 2/28 Australian Infantry Battalion. Doug was Discharged on 1 January 1945.
On his return to Australia, Doug was worked initially as a Labourer and then an Electrical Linesman
Submitted 19 December 2019 by Chris Buckley
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Doug was the ninth of ten children of George Hardie (born 1871 in Scotland) and Joan Rankin Kitching (born 1879 in Scotland. George was eight years of age when he immigrated with his family and arrived in South Australia on board the SS Oakland. Joan was three when her family arrived in Maryborough, QLD on board the Shenir. George - an Engine Driver - and Joan married at Howard in Wide Bay, QLD in 1899 and moved to Ipswich, where they raised their family.
Doug was a Labourer in Ipswich QLD when he enlisted in the Army in July 1940 and served as a Signalman (Service No:QX12515) with 9th Division Signals, and briefly with 26 Infantry Brigade Signals Section. Doug was in the Middle East (Tobruk, Syria and El Alamein), New Guinea (Lae, Finschaven and Salleberg) and Labuan and Tarakan Islands and Brunei. He was Discharged in January 1945. Older brothers - Alexander (ACMF, Private, N134070), Chas (Corporal, QX26629) and Walter (Private, Q46345) and Brother-in-Law Eric Roach (Private, QX45043/Q108028) also served in WWII.
In 1944 Doug married Doreen Bain (born 1921 in Ipswich, QLD). Doreen, a Clerk, served with the Australian Women's Army Service as a Lance Corporal (Service No:QF271514). Doug and Doreen lived in Ipswich, where Doug was an Electrical Linesman, until moving to Oxley in Brisbane QLD in the early 1950s. They settled there and Doug continued employment as an Electrical Linesman until retirement in the early 1980s. Doreen died at Port Macquarie in NSW in 2000 and Doug in 2012.
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