Reginald Wilfred DOVEY

DOVEY, Reginald Wilfred

Service Number: 455280
Enlisted: 12 April 1945
Last Rank: Not yet discovered
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Perth, Western Australia, 9 March 1923
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Ormond East State School, Victoria, Australia (1929-1937)
Occupation: Metal Polisher
Died: Mount Claremont, Western Australia, 21 October 1975, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
Area or Denomination: Anglican; Section: ZU; Gravesite: 0382.
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World War 2 Service

12 Apr 1945: Enlisted 455280
26 Sep 1945: Discharged 455280

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Biography contributed by Rosemary Ritorto

Reginald Wilfred DOVEY was the son of Frederick George Harold DOVEY and Edith DOVEY (nee KILBURN). Frederick George Harold DOVEY, known as Harold, served in World War I and was serving in France when he was captured and taken as a Prisoner of War by the Germans in April 1917.

Reginald Wilfred DOVEY is also the nephew of Reginald Walter DOVEY, who served at Gallipoli, Egypt and the Western Front in the 4th Machine Gun Battalion and was Killed in Action in the woods near Hamel on 4 July 1918.

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