George Peter BENNETT

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Service Number:	SX5981
Enlisted:	20 June 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Norwood, South Australia, Australia, 16 May 1920
Home Town:	Norwood (SA), South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Packer / Machinist
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, 8 September 1942, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea CWGC Grave No: Section B, Plot 3, Row B, Grave 19 (B3. B. 19). Inscription: "May his sacrifice not be in vain. Remembered by those he loved."
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Kensington & Norwood Honour Roll World War II Book and Case

20 Jun 1940:	Involvement Private, SX5981, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
20 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
20 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX5981, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
20 Oct 1940:	Embarked For Middle East on board Mauritania
Date unknown:	Involvement

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2/27 Battalion

Rank - Private

24 November 1940 - Disembarked in the Middle East

6 November 1941 - Admonished for disobeying an order

29 January 1942 - Embarked at Middle East

7 April 1942 - To hospital inflammed lung

7 August 1942 - Embarked at Brisbane

14 August 1942 - Disembarked at Prot Morseby

Son of William and Georgina Bennett, of Norwood, South Australia