page_title: Harry Harcourt
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Harcourt
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian and US officers conducted an orders group near Wanigela, New Guinea in October 1942. Present include Brigadier-General J. Hanton Macnider, commander of US 32nd Division, Major Harry Harcourt (seated, wearing beret), CO of the 2/6th Independent Company, and officers from the 2/10th Battalion and ANGAU.
context_page_description: Harry Gladwyn Harcourt, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC was an officer in the British Army and later the Australian Army who commanded an Australian commando unit during the Second World War.
  Harcourt's military career began in 1914 when he was commissioned into the British Army. During the First World War he served on the Western Front, commanding a machine gun unit. He gained promotion quickly, advancing to the rank of major by the end of the war. He also received a number of notable decorations. Later, Harcourt served during the Russian Civil War before emigrating to Australia in 1929. Following this, he worked as a public servant in Tasmania before the outbreak of the Second World War when he joined the Australian Army and subsequently went on to serve in the Australian commandos, taking part in the fighting in New Guinea and Borneo.
  Following the end of the war, Harcourt retired from the military and returned to working for the Tasmanian government. He died in 1970 at the age of 75.
context_section_description: Harry Gladwyn Harcourt, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC (13 February 1895 – 20 December 1970) was an officer in the British Army and later the Australian Army who commanded an Australian commando unit during the Second World War.
  Harcourt's military career began in 1914 when he was commissioned into the British Army. During the First World War he served on the Western Front, commanding a machine gun unit. He gained promotion quickly, advancing to the rank of major by the end of the war. He also received a number of notable decorations. Later, Harcourt served during the Russian Civil War before emigrating to Australia in 1929. Following this, he worked as a public servant in Tasmania before the outbreak of the Second World War when he joined the Australian Army and subsequently went on to serve in the Australian commandos, taking part in the fighting in New Guinea and Borneo.
  Following the end of the war, Harcourt retired from the military and returned to working for the Tasmanian government. He died in 1970 at the age of 75.
caption: Australian and US officers conduct an orders group at Wanigela, New Guinea in October 1942. Harcourt is the officer wearing the beret
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