Keith Gustave DAHL

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DAHL, Keith Gustave

Service Number:	VX86676
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
27 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX86676, 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment
28 Apr 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Trooper, VX86676, 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment, attached to the 24th Infantry Battalion

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Biography 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)

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