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GRANEY, Patrick Charles

Service Number:	SX8686
Enlisted:	12 July 1940, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 25 December 1917
Home Town:	Milang, Alexandrina, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer / Fisherman
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 3 October 1943, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot U. Row B. Grave 12. Personal Inscription ~ "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Milang Memorial Gates, Milang Soldiers' Memorial Gardens & Anzac Park

World War 2 Service

12 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX8686, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
12 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, SX8686, Adelaide, South Australia
29 Dec 1940:	Embarked Private, SX8686, HMAT Mauritania, Port Melbourne
29 Dec 1940:	Involvement Private, SX8686, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW2
7 Jun 1941:	Involvement Private, SX8686, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion, Syria - Operation Exporter
29 Aug 1941:	Promoted Lance Corporal, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
25 Oct 1942:	Promoted Corporal, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
3 Oct 1943:	Involvement Corporal, SX8686, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion, New Guinea - Huon Peninsula / Markham and Ramu Valley /Finisterre Ranges Campaigns
Date unknown:	Involvement

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