PIMLOTT, Graham Clarence
Service Number: | SX1283 |
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Enlisted: | 3 November 1939 |
Last Rank: | Signaller |
Last Unit: | 6th Division Signals |
Born: | Port Pirie, South Australia, 22 November 1915 |
Home Town: | Colonel Light Gardens, Mitcham, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Painter |
Died: | Killed in Action, Crete, Crete, Greece, 20 May 1941, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: |
Suda Bay War Cemetery (Souda Bay) Greece I.C.18 |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Port Pirie WW2 Memorial Gates |
World War 2 Service
3 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Private, SX1283, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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3 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX1283 | |
21 May 1941: | Involvement Signaller, SX1283, 6th Division Signals, "Operation Lustre" Greece 1941 | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
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"...SX1283 Signalman Graham Clarence Pimlott, 6th Division Signals, Australian Corps of Signals. Signalman Pimlott, aged 25, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 21 May 1941. He was the son of Horace Manifold Pimlott and Cleopatra Emily Pimlott and the husband of Daphne Mabel Pimlott, of Westbourne Park, SA. He is buried in the Suda Bay Cemetery Section 1, Row C, Plot 18..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)