Lance Sergeant Henry (Harry) Ernest Hamilton was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1916. At the age of 25, in December 1941, he enlisted in the Second World War with the 2/33rd Battalion. Intriguingly the 2/33rd journeyed back to Australia in February 1944, for a year of intense training, ahead of what transpired to be their last operation of the war, which lasted less than a month. This operation took place at Balikpapan in Borneo, the area of the most determined Japanese resistance. The 2/33rd landed at Balikpapan on 1 July 1945. A little over a fortnight later, on 17 July, Lance Sergeant Harry Hamilton led out a D Company patrol. The patrol was caught in an ambush, and Harry was mortally wounded. Only the day before Harry had received the first photographs of his new born son, Bruce. Harry was to be the last of the 2/33rd’s battle dead in the Second World War. The battalion was withdrawn to rest on 24 July, with the war ending three weeks later on the 15th of August.