Murray Charles ELLIS

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Service Number:	407360
Enlisted:	14 September 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 1 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Tanunda, South Australia, Australia, 20 January 1917
Home Town:	Tanunda, Barossa, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Flying Battle, Horn Island, off Cape York, North Queensland Australia, , Horn Island, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia, 4 July 1942, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lae Memorial, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lae Memorial, Tanunda War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, 407360
14 Sep 1940:	Involvement Sergeant, 407360
14 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
14 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 407360
14 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide
15 Sep 1940:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 407360, Enlistment/Embarkation WW2
4 Jul 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 407360, No. 1 Squadron (RAAF), Air War SW Pacific 1941-45

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Photograph: Tanunda RSL.

Please note: The details that came with the photograph are wrong. Date of death was actually 4 July 1942 not 23 October 1943.