Virtual War Memorial | Christopher Isaac (Kruger) JOHNSTON

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JOHNSTON, Christopher Isaac

Service Number:	SX16984
Enlisted:	31 January 1942, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/16th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 17 January 1915
Home Town:	Rosewater (Greytown), Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling:	Port Adelaide Infant Boys , South Australia (1921)
Occupation:	Waterside Worker
Died:	Illness, New Guinea, 15 December 1943, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea CWGC Grave No: Section B. Plot 2. Row B. Grave 21. Inscription: "IN GOD'S CARE. HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE".
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

31 Jan 1942:	Involvement Private, SX16984, 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion
31 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
31 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX16984, 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion
15 Dec 1943:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX16984, 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion, Died from scrub typhus at 2nd/5th Australian general Hospital, New Guinea.
Date unknown:	Involvement

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