Mervyn Leonard BLIGHT

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Service Number:	TX3783
Enlisted:	8 July 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Penguin, Tasmania, Australia, 15 October 1914
Home Town:	King Island, Tasmania
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Tasmania, Australia, 8 February 2001, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Anzac Park, Ulverstone, Tasmania
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

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8 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, TX3783, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
8 Dec 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, TX3783, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, From Darwin to Timor; disembarked on 12 December 1941.
15 Jun 1942:	Imprisoned Recovered at Changi, Singapore and repatriated to Australia. Discharged December 1945.
5 Sep 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, TX3783, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, Recovered as a POW from Changi Camp in Singapore.
19 Sep 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, TX3783, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, From Singapore to Sydney; disembarked on 7 October 1945.
10 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, TX3783, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion

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