KING, Kevin Lancelot
| Service Number: | NX35666 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 June 1940, Wagga Wagga |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Provost Corps (WW2) |
| Born: | The Rock, New South Wales, Australia, 5 August 1915 |
| Home Town: | Blacktown, Blacktown, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Unknown |
| Occupation: | Farm & General Labourer |
| Died: | Illness, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, 17 May 1973, aged 57 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, NX35666, Wagga Wagga | |
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| 13 Aug 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, NX35666, Australian Army Provost Corps (WW2), 9th Provost Corp |
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Kevin Lancelot KING was born in The Rock, NSW on 5th August, 1915
His parents were Lancelot John KING & Ethel Pearl THORNTON who married on 15th August, 1911
He enlisted in Wagga Wagga, NSW on 24th June 1940 & was sent to Bomay in March, 1941 & returned to Australia in February, 1943 and was sent up to Queensland where he did jungle training reading for heading over to New Guinea
He arrived in New Guinea in August 1943 and received a serious gun shot wound to the head in December, 1943 & returned to Australia in January 1944 and was discharged as medically unit on 13th August, 1944 - at the time he was a Lance Corporal in the 9th Australian Provost Coy.
Kevin died in 1973 and is buried in Christ Church in Blacktown
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