Kenneth Gordon JARVIS

JARVIS, Kenneth Gordon

Service Number: SX7142
Enlisted: 29 June 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
Born: Strathalbyn, SA, 5 April 1911
Home Town: Murray Bridge, Murray Bridge, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Died of wounds, Libya, 5 May 1941, aged 30 years
Cemetery: Tobruk War Cemetery, Tobruk, Libya
Plot 5. Row D. Grave 9.Tobruk War Cemetery Lib. 2
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Murray Bridge Pictorial Honour Roll KIA WW2 & Vietnam, Murray Bridge War Memorial WW2
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World War 2 Service

29 Jun 1940: Involvement Private, SX7142
29 Jun 1940: Enlisted Adelaide, SA
29 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX7142, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
5 May 1941: Wounded 2/48th Infantry Battalion, B883: Army, 2nd Al F

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Biography contributed by Larina Harper

recognised as one of the Rats of Tobruk.
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He is commemorated on the Community Roll of Honour in Norwood Sth Aust, also his name is located at panel 63 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (information from Find A Grave). Killed in Action