DAHL, Keith Gustave
Service Number: | VX86676 |
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Enlisted: | 27 July 1942 |
Last Rank: | Trooper |
Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment |
Born: | Albert Park, Victoria, Australia., 28 October 1923 |
Home Town: | Prahran, Stonnington, Victoria |
Schooling: | South Melbourne Technical School & Albert Park State School, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Welder |
Died: | Killed in Action, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Pacific Islands, 28 April 1945, aged 21 years |
Cemetery: |
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea Plot B4, Row F, Grave 21 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Trooper, VX86676 | |
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27 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX86676, 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment | |
28 Apr 1945: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Trooper, VX86676, 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment, attached to the 24th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Keith Gustave DAHL was born in Albert Park, Victoria on 28th October, 1923
His parents were Alexander Taylor DAHL & Ethel May NEWTON who married in Victoria in 1915
He died in Bougainville on 28th April, 1945 and was initially buried in the Barara Cemetery & re-interred in the Torakina Cemetery before being moved again to the Port Moresby (Bomana) Cemetery
"His duty nobly done - deep in our heart his memory is kept"
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His brother Private Ronald Alex. DAHL (SN VX2082) of the AASC 6th Division also lost his life during WW2 (18th May, 1940)