Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War II (1939-1945)

Date of Enlistment

28/04/1943

Date of Discharge

12/06/1946

Place of Enlistment

Gladesville NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

04/07/1924

Place of Birth

Warburton, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Hargraves Crescent, Ainslie ACT

School(s) Attended

Canberra High School

Occupation

Public servant

Next of Kin

James Brack (father), Hargraves Crescent, Ainslie ACT

Service Number

NX170457 (N230655)

Final Rank

Staff Sergeant

Final Unit

Signals 5 Australian Division

Tom Brack served in New Guinea during 1943 and 1944 as a cipher clerk with the 5th Division Signals and then at Morotai in the Netherlands East Indies during 1945 where he was promoted to acting Staff Sergeant. He married Elizabeth Archer in 1945 in Melbourne and after the war he resumed his public service career, however he resigned in 1951 to become secretary of the ACT Employers' Association and the Canberra Chamber of Commerce. By 1968 Brack had been appointed as a Commissioner in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. He died on 7 June 1984 in Sydney.

Description - height 5 feet 8.5 inches, blue eyes, fair complexion, light brown hair, Presbyterian.

WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
ACT Electoral Rolls 1916 to 1967 http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php
The Canberra Times - 14 December 1942, 26 May 1948
NAA RecordSearch - Series B883
Frank Bongiorno, 'Brack, Thomas James (Tom) (1924–1984)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brack-thomas-james-tom-12245/text21969, published first in hardcopy 2007, accessed online 21 November 2018.
Image courtesy of Bill Chase