Joe Tilson Lang collection
Collection
Collection of documents, photographs and other items illustrating the life of Joe Tilson Lang, O.B.E. who served during the First and Second World Wars, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. The collection also includes items relating to his elder brother Captain William Lang, 6th Light Horse Regiment Machine Gun Section, who died of wounds August 1915 after being mortally wounded at Gallipoli.
Between the wars, Joe Lang was employed as an engineer, most particularly as the Field Superintendent of Steel Construction, for the Story Bridge, Brisbane. In November 1939 Joe Lang re-enlisted and was posted as Captain to the 2/1st Army Field Workshop, Melbourne for several months before being promoted to Major and being transferred to the 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion. He sailed for the Middle East in May 1941, where he was badly wounded a month later in the left arm and thigh. He was repatriated to Australia and took up several posts before being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and took on the job of reforming the 2/2 Pioneer Battalion, most of who had been taken prisoners of war by the Japanese, in February 1942.
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