Walter Dean JAMES

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JAMES, Walter Dean

Service Number:	SX15680
Enlisted:	27 December 1941
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer Class 2
Last Unit:	32nd Field Security Section
Born:	Unley, South Australia, 8 June 1903
Home Town:	Mile End, City of West Torrens, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Illness, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 10 November 1944, aged 41 years
Cemetery:	Townsville War Cemetery, Queensland, Australia C.D.5.
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

27 Dec 1941:	Enlisted SX15680, Adelaide, South Australia
27 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, SX15680
10 Nov 1944:	Involvement Warrant Officer Class 2, SX15680, 32nd Field Security Section
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

"...SX15680 Warrant Officer Class 2 Walter Dean James who was a 38 year old clerk from Adelaide, South Australia when he enlisted in the Army on 27 December 1941. He was serving with the 32nd Field Security Section of the Australian Army Intelligence Corps in North Queensland when he died of illness on 10 November 1944. WO2 James is buried in the Townsville War Cemetery, Queensland..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Warrant Officer Class II Walter Dean James SX15680 of 32 Field Security Section - Australian Army Intelligence Corps

Son of Sydney and Amy James of Adelaide, SA

Husband of Shirley Anthony James of North Adelaide, SA

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