Raymond LA FRANCE

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LA FRANCE, Raymond

Service Number:	SX3104
Enlisted:	21 May 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 21 October 1918
Home Town:	Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, South Australia
Schooling:	Glenelg School, South Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed In Action, Syria, 12 June 1941, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Sidon War Cemetery 3 C 11
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brighton Glenelg District WW2 Honour Roll, Port Augusta District WW2 Honour Board, Port Augusta RSL Hall Circular Honour Roll, Soldiers' Memorial Band Rotunda

World War 2 Service

21 May 1940:	Involvement Private, SX3104, 27th Infantry Battalion
21 May 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
21 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX3104, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Pierre and Florence Maud LA FRANCE of 105A Anzac Highway, Glenelg, SA.

TWO BROTHERS KILLED IN ACTION
Mrs. P. Le France, of Glenelg, has been informed that her two sons, Pte. Raymond and Pte. Mervyn Le France, have been killed in action. Raymond, 19, was educated at the Glenelg school, and Mervyn, 26, at the North Adelaide school. They enlisted in March, 1940, and sailed for overseas in October.

THEIR DUTY NOBLY DONE

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