Muharem ALI

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Service Number:	VX54223
Enlisted:	3 May 1941, Royal Park, Victoria, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Albania, 10 January 1910
Home Town:	Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Builder's Labourer
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 30 April 1945, aged 35 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 21. Row D. Grave 7. Inscription: "HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONE EVER REMEMBERED. SYLVIA"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 May 1941:	Enlisted Royal Park, Victoria, Australia
3 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX54223
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Died of beri beri whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
30 Apr 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX54223, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Died of Illness - Beri Beri - on this day, whilst a Prisoner of War.

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Son of Banush and Marushe Ali; husband of Sylvia May Ali, of Riana, Tasmania.

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