Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 198

W ORLD W AR II

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name GEORGE FREDERICK HURRAN (Lt)

Lef SES 1927

Arrive SES 1924

Roll Number 2055 Died 28:12:1942 Age 33

Set / House E

Where BUNA-GONA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Serving with 2/10TH, ADELAIDE RIFLES

Buried Port Moresby (Bomana) Cemetery Remembered The Australian War Memorial, The RSL Virtual War Memorial and The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial Born Fareham, Hants in 1909. He was in the Choir, the Shooting VIII and the History VIth. ‘Remembered as a boy who always looked tough, wealthy and smug. One was surprised to find his character giving the lie to his appearance, for he was quite an orderly boy with an aptitude for scholarship and s keen appreciation for music. He left early and went to Australia where he spent many years as a sheep farmer, writing enthusiastically about his work in the vast lovely area he had to cover’ (Chronicle)’ When war broke out he enlisted with the 2nd Australian Imperial Force in 1940, later commissioned in the 2/20 Battalion, Adelaide Rifles, Australian Imperial Force in 1942 as a Lieutenant. He joined The Australian Expeditionary Force early in the war, when Australia itself was in danger of invasion by Japan. He was killed in action fighting the invading Japanese at the Battle of Buna-Gona in Papua New Guinea at the end of 1942.