Theodore Patrick BARRETT

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BARRETT, Theodore Patrick

Service Number:	NX42011
Enlisted:	5 August 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/1st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 4 June 1920
Home Town:	Marrickville, Marrickville, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Salesman
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua , 24 October 1942, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea Burial reference: - Plot B7. Row C. Grave 20. Personal Inscription: - "HIS DUTY DONE".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX42011
5 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX42011, 2nd/1st Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - William Edward Barrett and Emeline Mabel Jahns married 22nd March 1906 in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.

Wife: - Pauline Margaret Stafford married 24th June 1939 in St. Peters, New South Wales, Australia.

Private Theodore Patrick Barrett was killed in action near Eora Creek village, which along with Templeton's Crossing was subsequently the site of a battle in late October 1942 as the Australian forces pursued the Japanese forces retiring back toward the north coast of Papua.

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