Ronald Richard BENCE

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Service Number:	VX63525
Enlisted:	16 September 1941, Royal Park-Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/29th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 30 January 1940
Home Town:	Warrnambool, Warrnambool, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness - Malaria, Burma, 17 September 1943, aged 3 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Plot A15, Row B, Grave 5
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Warrnambool Soldiers' Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX63525
16 Sep 1941:	Involvement Private, VX63525, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore
16 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Private, VX63525, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Royal Park-Melbourne, VIC, Australia
16 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX63525, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion
26 Mar 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, (NAA Pg-4)

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Son of George Francis and Annie Jane Bence; husband of Eunice Bence, of Panmure, Victoria, Australia.

DEARLY LOVED & SADLY MISSED BY LOVING WIFE EUNICE AND FAMILY