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FELTHAM, Eric Joseph Arthur

Service Number:	DX104
Enlisted:	12 June 1936, Hobart,Tasmania
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/23rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	North Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 5 February 1917
Home Town:	Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Professional Soldier (permanent army) / motor mechanic
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 24 November 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot FF. Row D. Grave 7. Personal Inscription ~ "HASTE LA VISTA...OUR DARLING SON"
Memorials:	Albury 2/23 Australian Infantry Battalion Albury's Own Honour Roll, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Darwin War Memorial, East Point Memorial Wall

Non Warlike Service

12 Jun 1936:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/3rd Field Regiment, Hobart,Tasmania

World War 2 Service

8 Nov 1939:	Involvement Corporal, DX104
8 Nov 1939:	Enlisted
8 Nov 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, DX104
19 Jun 1942:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 2nd/23rd Infantry Battalion
23 Jun 1942:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches

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