Oliver John ARMSTRONG

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Service Number:	VX29137
Enlisted:	27 June 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE
Born:	Swan Reach, Victoria, Australia, 19 September 1908
Home Town:	Delegate River, East Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Foreman
Died:	Killed in Action, Malaya, 15 February 1942, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Kranji War Cemetery Plot 1, Row D, Grave 12, Kranji War Cemetery, Kranji, Singapore
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ringwood Country Roads Board WW2 Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lance Sergeant, VX29137
27 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, VX29137, 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE
27 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, VX29137

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His older brother 2109 Sergeant Arthur William Armstrong, 24th Battalion AIF, died of wounds 29 July 1916, Pozieres, France.