As we approach Anzac Day, the Shoalhaven Historical Society has shared details on some local soldiers who were killed in war.
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Their names can be found around the region, immortalised in street signs.
Corporal George William Colyer
Parents: Jesse and Louisa Colyer
Wife: Elsie May of Nowra
Unit: 8th Division Provost Company - Australian Army Provost Corps
He was one of the 2000 POWs held in North Borneo. He died as a prisoner of the Japanese on February 12, 1945, aged 31.
Private Roy Hollands
Parents: Ronald and Elsie Hollands of Nowra
Enlisted: November 1939 with brother Eric served at Bardia, Tobruk and Libya. On January 21, 1944, Eric was wounded by a mine explosion. Roy was shot and killed as he went to his brother's aid, aged 23. Eric survived and was discharged in May, 1942.
Corporal Wallace "Wally" Stafford Keft
Birth: Nowra on January 28, 1918
Parents: Thomas Albert and Edith Keft
Wife: Iris May Catherine of Hurstville
Unit:2/3 Battalion
History: Killed in action on February 1945 in New Guinea, aged 27. Left a widow and a daughter he had never seen.
Sergeant Arthur Sidney Lawrence
Parents: Alfred and Mary Elizabeth Lawrence of Nowra
Unit: 2/20 Battalion- Australian Infantry
History: He was one of over 2000 POWs held in North Borneo. He died as a prisoner on June 18, 194, aged 27 years.
Private James Edward Burr (not pictured)
Birth: Yerrandane, NSW
Parents: Williama and Ada Burr
Wife: Ellen Anne of Enfield
Enlisted: Paddington on May 22, 1940
Unit: 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion
History: Killed in action in New Guinea on October 19, 1943.
Lieutenant Gordon Leslie Leaney
Birth: Milton on December 4, 1918
Parents: :Leslie Thomas and Anne Leaney
Enlisted: Paddington on May 25, 1940
Unit: 2/1 Battalion (Infantry)
History: Killed in action at Supota, New Guinea on November 1942, a fortnight before his 24th birthday. He was posthumously awarded the Military Cross for 'Leadership and courage of the highest order'.
A new book by Barry Charles Brown has recently been released and is now for sale at the Nowra Museum.
The book is titled 'A Nowra man in Vietnam 1968-69' and can be purchased for $7.