HATCHER, Basil Montague
| Service Numbers: | 405153, QX26791 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 February 1941, Enlisted in Brisbane with 2 Initial Training School Discharged 19.3.1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Australian Armoured Brigade |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 22 September 1922 |
| Home Town: | Ashgrove, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Brighton State School & State Commercial High School, Brisbane |
| Occupation: | Clerk in Public Service |
| Died: | Illness, Queeensland, Australia, 30 August 1999, aged 76 years |
| Cemetery: |
Albany Creek Memorial Park-Cemetery & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 2 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 405153, Enlisted in Brisbane with 2 Initial Training School Discharged 19.3.1941 | |
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| 19 Mar 1941: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 405153 | |
| 7 Jan 1942: | Involvement QX26791 | |
| 7 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Signaller, QX26791, Enlisted in Brisbane as a Signalman with 36 Australian Wireless Task Section | |
| 13 Sep 1944: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX26791, Embarked on ship Duntroon for Lae - Unit, HQ 2nd Australian Armd C. Reg. as a Signalman | |
| 17 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX26791, 2nd Australian Armoured Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Basil Montague HATCHER was born on 22nd September, 1922 in Toowoomba, Queensland
His parents were Ernest HATCHER and Maud BAILEY who married in 1918 in Queensland
Basil married Thelma GORDON in 1944 - Thelma died in1972
He joined the Air Force in Brisbane on 2nd Feb. 1941 as an Aircraftman 2 with the No. 2 Initial Training School and was discharged on 19th March, 1941
Later he joined the Army in Brisbane on 7th January, 1942 and was a Signalman with the 36 Australian Wireless Task Section - he was in New Guinea and the Solomon islands from 14th Sept 1944 to 15th August, 1945 - he was discharged on 17th January, 1946
Transferred to 2nd Signals 1 Squadron Div. on 20th May, 1942
Transferred to 1 Squadron Signals, 1st Australian Armd Div on 19th Jan. 1942
Transferred to Headquarters 2nd Australian Armd C. Reg on 28th July, 1944
Embarked on ship Duntroon for Lae on 13th Sept. 1944
Embarked Lae for Bougainville on 20th Oct. 1944
Embarked Torokina for Green Island on 31st Oct. 1944
He left Torokina on the ship Katoomba and arrived back in Sydney on 2nd January, 1946
Known Medals: 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star
Basil died on 30th August, 1999 - his name is on a memorial plaque at Albany Creek Memorial Park, Bridgeman Downs, Queensland
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