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BACK, Ernest Charles
Personal Details
Service Number: | QX22369 |
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Enlisted: | 23 October 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 8 January 1915 |
Home Town: | McKinlay, McKinlay, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Shearer |
Died: | Killed in Action, New Guinea, 11 October 1943, aged 28 years |
Cemetery: |
Lae War Cemetery Personal Inscription: - "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE". Burial reference: - Plot E, Row C, Grave 4. |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, QX22369 | |
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23 Oct 1941: | Enlisted | |
23 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX22369, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion | |
11 Oct 1943: | Discharged |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Black
Parents: - Sydney Ernest Walkley Back and Eva Maud Wilson, (1910 in Sydney, New South Wales) of Bexley, New South Wales.