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Service Number:	SX3772
Enlisted:	28 May 1940, Wayville, SA
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Littlehampton, South Australia, Australia, 17 May 1911
Home Town:	Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, 30 November 1942, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea CWGC Grave No: Section B. Plot 6. Row A. Grave 3. Inscription: "HIS NAME WILL LIVE FOREVER".
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

28 May 1940:	Involvement Lance Corporal, SX3772, 27th Infantry Battalion
28 May 1940:	Enlisted Wayville, SA
28 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, SX3772, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement

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