Sparrow Force & Timor Memorial

Peter F Williams

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Frazer Street, Marrickville NSW 2204

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Stone

Conflicts

Second World War, 1939–45

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Members of the 2/40th Battalion at Brighton Army Camp prior to embarkation for service overseas; the unit was the only battalion in the Australian Imperial Force recruited almost entirely from Tasmania.

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Private Leslie Albert Allen, 2/40th Australian Infantry Battalion

Leslie “Barney” Allen was born at Sisters Creek, Tasmania on 24 September 1918, the eldest son of Albert and Ruby Allen.

He grew up in Myalla, a small rural

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Australian guerrillas accepting fresh fruit from Timorese in November 1942

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"H" detachment Sparrow Force at Viqueque, 1942

Within days of the outbreak of the Pacific war in December 1941, the largely Australian “Sparrow Force” was sent to Timor. At that time Timor was divided

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