"Harry" Charles Harriet LUCAS

Born 28 March 1917 in Toodyay, Western Australia ^[16]
Son of William Thomas LUCAS and Linda Mary KILPIN; and brother of Harold David LUCAS ^{[5: 5-Feb-1943] [18]}
Resided and worked in Carnamah for a period during the 1930s ^{[5: 5-Feb-1943]}
Winner of Euchre at the Carnamah Parents & Citizens Association's Card Evening on Thursday 17 October 1935 ^{[5: 25-Oct-1935]}
Later worked as a Contractor and resided at 40 Piccadilly Street in Kalgoorlie^[18]
Resided in Kalgoorlie until enlisting in the Australian Army on 15 June 1940^[16]
Gave his next of kin as his mother Mrs Linda Mary SMITH, also of 40 Piccadilly Street, Kalgoorlie ^[18]
Private WX4187 in the Australian Army's 2/16 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War ^[16]
Wounded twice in the Middle East before being Killed in Action in Papua New Guinea on 1 December 1942 ^{[0: image 04023] [18]}
Buried / Memorialised at the Bomana War Cemetery in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea ^[17]
His name appears on Kalgoorlie's Roll of Honour ^[16]


From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 5 February 1943:
"For King and Country - Late Pte. Harry Lucas. Those local people who remember Charles Henry (Harry) Lucas have learned with regret that he paid the supreme sacrifice during the fighting in New Guinea. A son of Mrs. L. Lucas and Mr. W. Lucas, he was born at Toodyay. At one period he worked for a time in Carnamah where his elder brother, Harold, was better known. At the outbreak of the war he was at Kalgoorlie and, enlisting early, was twice wounded in the Middle East and on returning and going to New Guinea he fell in action. In the flush of victories won, we at home are apt to forget the sacrifices that must be made to make them possible. The realisation that for such boys whom we knew all is ended, is a sobering thought."

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