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Arthur Amos Murray Eric Maurice Connor (1936) Charles E. Zeck (1930-33)

Brazier (1919) Eric entered Hale School in 1936 from Northam. He was Charles entered Hale School from Mount Lawley as a 13

listed as an excellent boxer, was in the 1st XVIII football year-old in 1930. After leaving in 1933 he began training
Arthur was from a farming family team and his report describes him as having the makings in accountancy and business management but eventually
and was a boarder from Kirup in the of a fine type of young man. He joined a bank after took over the family hairdressing business in Perth.
South-West. He entered Hale School leaving school and, upon the outbreak of war he joined
in 1919 as a 13 year old. the Western Australian 2/28th Infantry Battalion and was He joined the 2/43rd Infantry Battalion, saw service in the
posted to the Middle East with them. Middle East in North Africa and subsequently went with
Arthur Amos Murray Brazier his unit to Papua New Guinea. He was killed in action near
On the outbreak of war, he joined the
2/4th Machine-Gun Battalion and was PLAQUE NO 108: PLAQUE NO 109: After service in the North African campaigns, he Lae in New Guinea on the 3 October 1943. He was 38
eventually posted to Singapore. He completed an officer's training school in Cairo before years of age.
was a made a prisoner-of-war when Arthur Lindsay Donald Gordon being transferred to the 2/43rd Infantry Battalion back
Singapore fell on15 February 1942, in Australia. He was serving as a platoon commander Placed by his daughter, Jill.
spent some months in Changi prison Taylor (1930) with that unit when he was killed in the push toward Lae,
and then was sent north to work in Forsyth (1918) against Japanese forces, in September 1943. He was 23
the Burma-Thai railway line later in years of age.
the year. Arthur lived in Mount Lawley and Don entered Hale School from Placed by his sister-in-law, Mrs Billie Connor.
entered Hale School as a fifteen Fremantle as a 13 year old in 1930.
He died in March 1943 as a result year old in 1918. On leaving school His report notes that he had both
of malnutrition, disease and he worked as an accountant before good scholastic application and
mistreatment by his captors. He was joining the Western Australian 2/28th ability and that he was also good
36 years of age. Battalion in 1942. at games. After leaving school he
trained as an accountant and on the
The Hale School museum has He was posted to the New Guinea outbreak of war he joined the Royal
procured a small length of the theatre of operations and was Australian Air Force and trained as a
Burma-Thai railway line and on it, appointed the batman to Haleian pilot.
together with two other Haleians who Colonel Hugh Norman (1915-21), the
met a similar fate, Arthur's name is commanding officer of the battalion While serving with Number 31
inscribed. at the time. He lost his life crossing Squadron, flying Beaufighter
the Busu River in the assault on Lae aircraft, he was killed at Millingimbi
Placed by Mr Jim Elliot, representing against Japanese forces on the 9 in the Northern Territory on the 25
the 2/4th Machine-Gun Battalion September 1943. He was 41 years of September, 1943. He was 26 years of
Association. age. age.

Placed by his sons, The Reverend Placed by his daughter, Mrs Karen
Alan Forsyth (1954-58) and the Crellin.
Reverend Dr John Forsyth (1951-55).