Walter AINSBURY

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Service Number:	VX54991
Enlisted:	6 May 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Coventry, West Midlands, England, 23 November 1910
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 11 March 1945, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 24. Row B. Grave 4. Inscription: "HIS DUTY DONE...ALWAYS REMEMBERED".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX54991
6 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX54991
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Died from Beri Beri and malaria whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
11 Mar 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Member of Gull Force.

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