April 5, 2024
Casualty WWII Australian service medal to officer 2/10th infantry Killed 1942
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An Australian Service Medal correctly named to: SX408 G.F HURRAN http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/roll_of_honour/person.asp?p=527641 George Frederick HURRAN served as a Lieutenant with the 2/10th Australian Infantry and had been promoted to temporary Captain. He was sadly killed in action leading his men in the savage jungle fighting around the Kokoda trail in Papua New Guinea on 28/12/1942. The 2/10th Infantry first saw action in the Defence of Tobruk in 1941 prior to being withdrawn to Syria and then back to Australia. They were then dispatched to Papua New Guinea and took part in the Battle of Milne Bay in August 1942 where on the night of the 27th they were overwhelmed by Japanese Marines and suffered heavily. After regrouping the battalions next encounter with the Japanese at Buna would prove to be even more costly. Buna had been turned into a stronghold defended by a series of heavily camouflaged and fortified bunkers which had to be destroyed one by one. The fighting was slow and vicious with each bunker being defended by an enemy who fought to the last. Due to increasing pressure to take the bunkers the battalion was forced into increasingly desperate attacks without support from heavy weapons and on the 28th Lieut HURRAN was killed in one such attack. A photo is held by the AWM of Captain HURRAN 2/10th in Papua
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