Soldier profiles

Name : BYE, JOHN HORACE
Service Number : NX88353
Date of Birth : 16/03/1922
Place of Birth : BOURKE, NSW
Known as : MICK
Occupation on Enlistment : STATION HAND
Date of Enlistment : 12/02/1942
Locality on Enlistment : BOURKE, NSW
Place of Enlistment : PADDINGTON, NSW
Next of Kin : BYE, HORACE
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 9 PIONEER TRAINING BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War :
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 30/08/1944
Date Died : 24/10/1991
Age at Death : 69
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 4626331 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, 2/2 Pioneers Newsletter 12/1991 p7

Background : Brother? of Thomas Robert Bye (2/2 Pioneer).

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 4 inches, brown eyes, medium complexion, dark brown hair. Marks / scars : appendix scar, dark pigment spot back right thorax. Full time war service : A.I.F. 12/02/1942 to 30/08/1944 which included 931 days active service (650 days within Australia & 220 days overseas). Operational service : New Guinea area (embarked from Australia 25/07/1943, disembarked in Australia 29/02/1944). War badge no. A52106. Discharge certificate no. 49731.

Service record
12/02/1942 Marched into General Details Depot Sydney, New South Wales.
16/02/1942 Marched out to 9 Pioneer Training Battalion.
12?/02/1942 Taken on strength 9 Pioneer Training Battalion Dubbo, New South Wales.
12/07/1942 Transferred to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Bathurst, New South Wales.
14/07/1942 Taken on strength 2/2 Pioneer Battalion 2 Military District (New South Wales).
29/01/1943 Entrained for 3 Military District (Victoria).
26/03/1943 Entrained for 1 Military District (Queensland).
26/06/1943 Evacuated to 2/2 Australian General Hospital with bronchitis and transferred to X list 1 Military District (Queensland).
01/07/1943 Granted proficiency pay.
05/07/1943 Evacuated to 2/1 Australian Corps Rest Station 1 Military District (Queensland).
16/07/1943 Discharged to unit.
17/07/1943 Taken on strength 2/2 Pioneer Battalion from hospital - off X list 1 Military District (Queensland).
25/07/1943 Embarked Townsville, Queensland on H.M.T. Duntroon.
28/07/1943 Disembarked Port Moresby, New Guinea.
03/11/1943 Evacuated to 2/4 Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station with ? scrub typhus.
05/11/1943 Evacuated from 2/4 Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station to III Casualty Clearing Station and transferred to X list.
12/11/1943 Discharged III Casualty Clearing Station to unit.
17/11/1943 Taken on strength from III Casualty Clearing Station.
03/12/1943 Evacuated to 2/5 Australian General Hospital with tinea and transferred to X list.
21/01/1944 Evacuated from 2/5 Australian General Hospital with general dermatomycosis and bronchitis to 113 Australian Convalescent Depot.
09/02/1944 Discharged 113 Australian Convalescent Depot to New Guinea Details Depot.
21/02/1944 Embarked Port Moresby, New Guinea on S.S. Montoro.
29/02/1944 Disembarked Sydney, New South Wales.
29/02/1944 Taken on strength from disembarkation to proceed on leave.
16/05/1944 Detained 5 Australian Convalescent Hospital, Queensland for more than 7 days and transferred to X list.
17/05/1944 Evacuated from 5 Australian Convalescent Hospital to 2/6 Australian General Hospital with bronchial asthma and transferred to X list.
24/05/1944 Evacuated from 2/6 Australian General Hospital to 1 Australian Ambulance train.
29/05/1944 Evacuated from 1 Australian Ambulance train to 113 Australian General Hospital, Concord, New South Wales.
07/08/1944 Transferred to General Details Depot New South Wales Lines of Communication area for discharge.
30/08/1944 Discharged being medically unfit for further military service.