Irvin George FENWICK

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FENWICK, Irvin George

Service Number:	SX8001
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
5 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
5 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX8001, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography 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.

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