Maxwell James HEWETT

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Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	17 December 1941, Hindmarsh, SA
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	RAAF Telecommunications and Communications Units
Born:	Bute, South Australia, Australia, 2 October 1923
Home Town:	Wallaroo Mines, Copper Coast, South Australia
Schooling:	Pine Flat Primary School, Kadina High School, Kadina Technical School, South Australia
Occupation:	Junior Clerk
Died:	Aircraft crashed, New Guinea, 29 January 1945, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot NN. Row C. Grave 6. Personal Inscription ~ "HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY & NOBLY DONE, FOREVER LOVED & REMEMBERED - LEST WE FORGET"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kadina Memorial High School WW2 Honour Roll, Kadina Town Hall WW1 & WW2 Roll of Honour

17 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Hindmarsh, SA
1 Apr 1943:	Enlisted Adelaide
22 Oct 1944:	Transferred Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, RAAF Telecommunications and Communications Units, No. 8 Communication's Unit, Madang, New Guinea

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