Herbert Hector ASHBY OAM, DCM

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Service Number:	SX10570
Enlisted:	5 December 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mt Gambier, South Australia, 12 October 1921
Home Town:	Kongorong, Grant, South Australia
Schooling:	Kongorong, South Australia
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Natural Causes, Mt Gambier, South Australia, 8 February 2009, aged 87 years
Cemetery:	Carinya Gardens Cemetery, Mount Gambier, South Australia She-Oak Garden/Row-P/35
Memorials:	South Australian Garden of Remembrance

5 Dec 1940:	Enlisted Private, SX10570, Wayville, South Australia
5 Dec 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, SX10570, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
6 Dec 1940:	Involvement Private, SX10570, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
19 Mar 1945:	Discharged Sergeant, SX10570, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
19 Mar 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, SX10570, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion

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