Jack Alexandria DAVIE

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Service Number:	VX30037
Enlisted:	4 June 1940, Royal Park, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 12 May 1918
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	(POW of Japan), Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, 4 February 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Panel 21.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial

4 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX30037, Royal Park, Victoria
4 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX30037, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
10 Apr 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX30037, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Embarked for Rabaul. Disembarked on 26 April 1941.
23 Jan 1942:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX30037, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Battle of Rabaul
4 Feb 1942:	Involvement Private, VX30037, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Prisoners of War
4 Feb 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX30037, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, POW Death.

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