Gordon Boase AROIN

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Service Number:	QX20982
Enlisted:	16 April 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/31st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, 2 August 1910
Home Town:	Sunnybank, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Illness, New Guinea, 20 December 1942, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea (CWGC) Burial Reference ~ Section B, Plot 1, Row E, Grave 10. Personal Inscription ~ "HOW COULD MAN DIE BETTER: LOVED BY ALL".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, QX20982
16 Apr 1941:	Enlisted
16 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX20982, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion
20 Dec 1942:	Discharged

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