Gordon Victor DEW

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Service Number:	SX11053
Enlisted:	22 January 1941
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mount Gambier, South Australia, 24 May 1911
Home Town:	Riverton, Clare and Gilbert Valleys, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of wounds, Papua, 4 September 1942, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea CWGC Grave No: Section A. Plot 2. Row B. Grave 27. Inscription: "BELOVED HUSBAND OF CONNIE AND LOVING ONLY SON OF F. & A. DEW"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

22 Jan 1941:	Involvement Corporal, SX11053, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
22 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
22 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX11053, 2nd/5th Field Ambulance
Date unknown:	Involvement

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