Harold George BETTS

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Service Number:	NX86372
Enlisted:	28 January 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/6th Independent Company (Cavalry Commando Squadron)
Born:	Hillgrove, New South Wales, Australia, 21 August 1918
Home Town:	New Lambton, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Glass Worker
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua New Guinea, 20 September 1943, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery Plot IA, Row A, Grave 1. Personal Inscription: - "EVER REMEMBERED DARLING...TILL WE MEET AGAIN...REST ON PEACE".
Memorials:	Australian Commando Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX86372, 2nd/6th Independent Company (Cavalry Commando Squadron)
28 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX86372

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