Robert Leonard COTTON

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Service Number:	S34225
Enlisted:	21 December 1939, Unley, SA
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Headquarters Staff
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 1 November 1918
Home Town:	Highgate, Unley, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Articled Law Clerk
Died:	Illness, New Guinea, 4 August 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea CWGC Grave No: Section A. Plot 1. Row A. Grave 16. Inscription: "UT OMNES UNUM SINT" ("That they all may be one")
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

21 Dec 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, S34225
21 Dec 1939:	Enlisted Unley, SA
21 Dec 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, S34225
4 Aug 1942:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, Headquarters Staff, Posted to Headquarters 8 Military District (Legal Staff). Died from Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). New Guinea.
Date unknown:	Involvement

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