Kenneth Arnold BOXER

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Service Number:	SX18017
Enlisted:	17 March 1942, Wayville, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Kingscote, South Australia, Australia, 30 March 1910
Home Town:	Alberton, Port Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Fisherman
Died:	Illness, New Guinea, 21 October 1943, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea CWGC Grave No: Section B, Plot 2, Row A, Grave 2 - B2.A.2. Inscription: "He died that we might live."
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kingscote & District WW2 Honour Roll, Kingscote War Memorial, Wisanger WW2 Roll of Honour

17 Mar 1942:	Involvement Private, SX18017, 27th Infantry Battalion
17 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Wayville, SA
17 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX18017, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
21 Oct 1943:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion, Died of scrub typhus, New Guinea.
Date unknown:	Involvement

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