Aubrey Patrick BALL

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Service Number:	VX20327
Enlisted:	11 June 1940, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Portland, Victoria, Australia, 27 November 1918
Home Town:	Portland, Glenelg, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 29 April 1944, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 20. Row A. Grave 8. Inscription: "DUTY NOBLY DONE"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Portland WW2 Memorial, Portland and District St. Stephen's Anglican Church WW2 Supreme Sacrifice Roll of Honor

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX20327
11 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
11 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX20327
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Died of illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese Occupation Force. Nature of death recorded as bacillary dysentery.
29 Apr 1944:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Died of illness

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Son of Walter James Ball and Cristina Ball; husband of Ruby Olive Ball, of Beaufort, Victoria, Australia.

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