Harold James COLLINS

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Service Number:	VX23628
Enlisted:	7 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Wodonga, Victoria, Australia, 27 April 1915
Home Town:	Yackandandah, Indigo, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer and Truck Driver
Died:	Japanese passenger vessel, Montevideo Maru - South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 27 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Memorial Panel 20; Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial, Yackandandah Back Creek State School WW2 Honour Roll, Yackandandah War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX23628
7 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX23628, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion

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