James Maxwell DUNCAN

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DUNCAN, James Maxwell

Service Number:	VX47522
Enlisted:	18 July 1940, Caulfield, Victoria
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/23rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 25 August 1911
Home Town:	Rand, Urana, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Tobruk, Libya, 17 May 1941, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya Plot 15, row A, grave 14, Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Darnah province, Libya
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Corporal, VX47522
18 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX47522, Caulfield, Victoria
18 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, VX47522, 2nd/23rd Infantry Battalion
17 May 1941:	Involvement Corporal, VX47522, 2nd/23rd Infantry Battalion, Siege of Tobruk

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

"... VX47522 Corporal James Maxwell Duncan, 2/23 Battalion. Cpl Duncan was killed in action in Libya on 17 May 1941 and was originally buried in the field in Tobruk on 24 May 1941, and later moved to Knightsbridge War Cemetery, plot 15, row A, grave 14. He was the son of James Duncan (/explore/people/187848) and Mabel Duncan of Hobart, Tasmania, and the husband of Jessie Mary Duncan of The Rand, NSW." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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