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BLANKS, Walter Augustus

Service Number:	VX31646
Enlisted:	12 June 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 18 January 1908
Home Town:	Thornbury, Darebin, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bootmaker
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 25 May 1945, aged 37 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 20. Row C. Grave 8. Inscription: "HIS DUTY FEARLESSY AND NOBLY DONE EVER REMEMBERED… R.I.P".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement VX31646
12 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX31646
16 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Tikai (Lance Corporal - PNG), VX31646, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Died of illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese Occupation Force. Nature of death recorded as beri beri.
25 May 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Member of Gull Force

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