Sydney Reginald (Reg) GREENING

GREENING, Sydney Reginald

Service Number: SX12362
Enlisted: 23 April 1941, Wayville, SA
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Born: Stansbury, South Australia, 19 September 1909
Home Town: Wool Bay, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, Papua New Guinea, 21 January 1943, aged 33 years
Cemetery: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
Grave Reference: A8. C. 4. Cemetery: PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY , Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Bomana, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Stansbury Memorial Gates, Stansbury War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

23 Apr 1941: Involvement Private, SX12362, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
23 Apr 1941: Enlisted Wayville, SA
23 Apr 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX12362, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown: Involvement

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Biography

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA: 1931 - 1954) Friday 12 February 1943

Private Casualty Advices

Mr. and Mrs. S. Greening, of Wool Bay, have received advice that their son, Pte. S. R. (Reg.), Greening, was killed in action in New Guinea on January 21. Pte. Greening enlisted in February, 1941, and sailed for the Middle East in September of that year.   He returned to Australia in March   1942, and later went to New Guinea.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48901249

 

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