Alan Edgar ANDREWS

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Service Number:	WX2208
Enlisted:	25 April 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/31st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Boulder, Western Australia, Australia , 5 February 1916
Home Town:	Coolgardie, Coolgardie, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, 11 November 1942, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea (CWGC) Official Burial Reference ~ Section B, Plot 7, Row D, Grave 24. Personal Inscription ~ "WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU SMILING, ALAN".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, WX2208
25 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX2208, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion

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