FENWICK, Irvin George
Service Number: | SX8001 |
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Enlisted: | 5 July 1940, Adelaide, SA |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Lameroo, SA, 26 December 1919 |
Home Town: | Lameroo, Southern Mallee, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Libya, 6 October 1941, aged 21 years |
Cemetery: |
Tobruk War Cemetery, Tobruk, Libya |
Memorials: | Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lameroo Oval Memorial Gates |
World War 2 Service
5 Jul 1940: | Involvement Private, SX8001, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
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5 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
5 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8001, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Inin Melrose Fenwick and Eliza Read Fenwick, of Lameroo, South Australia; husband of Gwendoline May Fenwick, of Parkside, South Australia.
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY, SADLY MISSED
Mrs. G. Fenwick, of Leicester street Parkside, has been advised that her husband. Pte. L George Fenwick, 22, was killed in action at Tobruk on October 6. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Fenwick of Lameroo. He enlisted in June 1940 and sailed for overseas in April 1941.