John Herbert Spencer BINT

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BINT, John Herbert Spencer

Service Number:	SX7905
Enlisted:	5 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
Born:	60 Peak Hill, Sydenham, England, 24 July 1917
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Garage Hand
Died:	Illness, Italy, 10 August 1942, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Bari War Cemetery Plot XI Row D Grave 30.
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, SX7905
5 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
5 Jul 1940:	Involvement Private, SX7905
5 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX7905
17 Nov 1940:	Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, SX7905, HMT Stratheden
10 Aug 1942:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, SX7905, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

John Herbert Spencer BINT was born in 60 Peak Hill, Sydenham, England on 24th July, 1917

His parents were Sydney Gerald BINT & Florence Hilda POWELL who married in England in 1916

He enlisted in Adelaide on 5th July, 1940 and embarked on the HMT Stratheden on 17th November, 1940

John died of Illness while a Prisoner of War on 10th August 1942 and is buried in the Bari War Cemetery in Italy

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