Herbert Cecil CHELLEW

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CHELLEW, Herbert Cecil

Service Number:	SX12983
Enlisted:	26 May 1941, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia , 13 February 1906
Home Town:	Brooklyn Park, South Australia
Schooling:	Not known
Occupation:	Fireman South Australian Railways
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, 24 December 1942, aged 36 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea Grave Reference: B8. C. 19.
Memorials:	Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, District of Terowie Honour Roll WW2, Terowie War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, SX12983
26 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX12983, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
26 May 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
26 May 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
26 May 1941:	Involvement Private, SX12983, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
18 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), SX12983
Date unknown:	Involvement
Date unknown:	Involvement Private, SX12983, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion, Kokoda - Papua

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Herbert Cecil CHELLEW was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales on 13th February, 1906

His parents were Josiah Smith CHELLEW & Elizabeth Martin (Bessie) MARA who married in Broken Hill in 1905

He married Lillian Alice RUSHFORTH in South Australia in 1924

Biography

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA: 1931 - 1954) Wednesday 6 January 1943

Mrs. L. A. Chellew, of Byrnes street, Brooklyn Park, has been notified that her husband, Pte. H. C. Chellew, AIF, was killed in action in New Guinea on December 24. Pte. Chellew was employed in the SAR before enlisting. He was the eldest son of Mrs. H. H. Martin, of Terowie.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48896827 (nla.gov.au)

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