Joseph Basil HARDY

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HARDY, Joseph Basil

Service Numbers:	W80330, WX27095
Enlisted:	4 May 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	AMF Anti Aircraft units / Elements WW2
Born:	Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia, 24 October 1914
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Storeman
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 27 January 1967, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

4 May 1942:	Enlisted Private, W80330
20 Jul 1942:	Discharged Private, W80330
21 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX27095
21 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), WX27095, AMF Anti Aircraft units / Elements WW2, Gunner
17 Jan 1943:	Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), WX27095, AMF Anti Aircraft units / Elements WW2, Gunner ex Townsville, QLD per Tarooma for Milne Bay
16 Apr 1944:	Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), WX27095, AMF Anti Aircraft units / Elements WW2, Gunner ex Milne Bay for Townsville, QLD per Ormiston
27 Oct 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX27095
27 Oct 1944:	Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), WX27095, AMF Anti Aircraft units / Elements WW2, Gunner Medical Discharge - Joe was diagnosed with Schizophrenia in August 1944 and hospitalised(2/4 AGH)
Date unknown:	Involvement Gunner, WX27095, AMF Anti Aircraft units / Elements WW2

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Joseph was the eldest of two children of Leo Victor Hardy (born 1887 in London) and Florance Margaret Buckley (born 1892 in Newcastle, Western Australia). Leo, a Clerk, and Florance married in Perth WA in 1915 and Leo served in WWI as a Private (Service No: 4030).

Joseph was living in Bassendean in Perth WA and working as a Storeman when he enlisted in the CMF in 1942, and then served with the Australian Army from July 1942 as a Gunner until he was Discharged in 1944.

Following WWII Joseph worked as a Labourer in Perth and Wittenoom in WA. He died in 1967

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