Robert Edward CLIFTON

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Service Number:	SX5502
Enlisted:	17 June 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Semaphore, South Australia, 1 July 1922
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Libya, 3 August 1941, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Tobruk War Cemetery, Tobruk, Libya Plot 4, Row P, Grave 5
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

17 Jun 1940:	Involvement Private, SX5502, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
17 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
17 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX5502, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
29 Dec 1940:	Embarked Private, SX5502, Embarked at Port Melbourne with the 2/43 Battalion

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