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BURNET, Alexander James Finlay

Service Number:	QX23829
Enlisted:	22 September 1941, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 17 March 1902
Home Town:	Ilfracombe, Longreach, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Died at sea (POW of Japan - Rakuyo Maru), South China Sea, 12 September 1944, aged 42 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Panel 15, Labuan Memorial (within Labuan War Cemetery) Labuan Federal Territory., Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ilfracombe Memorial Rotunda

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, QX23829, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
22 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Private, QX23829, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
22 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX23829, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, POW-Prisoner of War: 15/02/1942, official date of surrender of the Allied Forces to the Japanese Forces.

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