Walter William PEARSON

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PEARSON, Walter William

Service Number:	NX11154
Enlisted:	16 April 1940
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Field Company / Squadron RAE
Born:	Rozelle, New South Wales, 8 April 1917
Home Town:	Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 24 September 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery Panel No. 2 in Lae Memorial. His name is located at panel 24 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT., Lae Memorial, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lae Memorial

World War 2 Service

16 Apr 1940:	Involvement Sapper, NX11154, Enlistment/Embarkation WW2
16 Apr 1940:	Enlisted
16 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX11154, 2nd/3rd Field Regiment
25 Jul 1940:	Involvement Sapper, NX11154, 2nd/3rd Field Company / Squadron RAE

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Biography

Father William Walter Pearson and Mother Minnie Carlyle Pearson
living at 44 Regent Street, Kogarah, NSW.

16/4/1940 Enlisted into WWII at Ingleburn, NSW

24/9/1943     died in action
                    as a Sapper in the Royal Australian Engineers, 2/3 Field Company
                    NO KNOWN GRAVE

                    His name is commemorated on Panel No.2
                    at the LAE MEMORIAL, within the entrance to the LAE War cemetery
                    LAE, New Guinea

sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan. 29/3/2014. Lest we forget.

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