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Biographical Dictionary - Coorow, Carnamah, Three Springs


Surname

Harry HAMMER

Born 1904 in Boulder, Western Australia [15]
Son of Phillip Henry HAMMER and Martha Jane Adelaide MCFADDEN [15]
Married Vera MCDONALD in 1924 [66]
Worked in Coorow during the wheat carting seasons in 1927 and 1928 [215]
Haulage Contractor of 287 Hampton Road in the Perth suburb of Beaconsfield in 1928 [215]
Contractor in Coorow 1931-1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934] [19] [50]
Member of the Coorow Football Club - was Secretary in 1929 and President in 1933 [86: 20-Apr-1929] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
In 1932 he had a hired Fargo truck registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-6 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club - was Secretary in 1933-34 [5: 16-Mar-1934] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Resigned as secretary of the Coorow Tennis Club on 13 March 1934, owing to his intending departure from the district [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Along with his wife, brother and parents were tendered a Farewell Social at the Coorow Hall on Thursday 29 March 1934 [5: 30-Mar-1934]
Resided in Coolgardie prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 23 October 1940 [16]
Private WX8718 in the Australian Army's 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 29 November 1945; he had been a Prisoner of War [16]
Father of Adelaide Charlotte [215]


Reference:  Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Harry Hammer' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 28 March 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/harry-hammer [reference list]




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