Walter Kevin (Dobbo) AGETT

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AGETT, Walter Kevin

Service Numbers:	27503, SX27482
Enlisted:	20 August 1940, Adelaide
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Iron Knob, South Australia, 6 March 1921
Home Town:	Parkside, Unley, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Wharf Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 12 October 1943, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot IA, Row D, Grave 1. Personal Inscription ~ "DAYS GO BY, YEARS GO FAST, BUT LOVING MEMORIES ALWAYS LAST".
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Port Pirie WW2 Memorial Gates, Iron Knob War Memorial

World War 2 Service

20 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Aircraftman, 27503, Adelaide
16 May 1942:	Transferred Private, 27 Infantry Battalion AMF
21 Dec 1942:	Enlisted Private, SX27482
12 Oct 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX27482, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion, Killed in action, New Guinea.

Private Casualty Advices

Mrs. W. K. Agett, of Parkside, has been notified that her husband, Pte. Kevin Agett. 22, was killed in action in New Guinea on October 12. Pte. Agett previously served in
the RAAF for two years, and enlisted in the AIF in August, 1942.
He was married in June, 1942. to Miss Betty Wyatt, and leaves a six-months-old son. Pte. Agett was the only son of Mrs. M. Agett, of Port Pirie.

The Advertiser Wednesday 03 November 1943 page 5

Submitted 12 October 2015 by Daryl Jones

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