Maxwell James RUTTER

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RUTTER, Maxwell James

Service Number:	SX4055
Enlisted:	31 May 1940, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Lance Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia , 30 April 1920
Home Town:	Grange, City of Charles Sturt / Henley and Grange, South Australia
Schooling:	Rostrevor College
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, 8 September 1942, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea B3. B. 8
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Henley Beach Council Fallen WW1 & WW2 Honour Board, Henley Beach Council WW2 Honour Roll and Addendum, Rostrevor College WW2 Memorial Plaques

World War 2 Service

31 May 1940:	Involvement Lance Sergeant, SX4055, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
31 May 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, South Australia
31 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, SX4055, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Alfred Lawrence and Irene Rutter, of Grange, South Australia.

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE

Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Rutter, of Grange, have been notified that their eldest son, L/Sgt. M.J. Rutter, was killed in action in New Guinea on September 7. L/Sgt. Rutter left for overseas in October 1940, and returned to Australia last March, after having served in the Syrian campaign.

WAR CASUALTIES
News of the death of her grandson. Lance-Sergeant Max Rutter, A.I.F., eldest son of Mr. and Murs. A. L. Suttter, of Adelaide, and formerly of Launceston, has been received by Mrs. M. A. James, Launceston. Lance Sergeant Rutter was 23 years of age and left for the Middle East in October, 1940. He served in the Syrian campaign and was invalided home in March 0f this year. He was killed in action in New Guinea on September 7. His mother will be remembered in Launceston as Miss Rene James.

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