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JARVIS, Kenneth Gordon
Personal Details
Service Number: | SX7142 |
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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 |
Service History
World War 2 Service
29 Jun 1940: | Involvement Private, SX7142 | |
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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 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography 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