Peter Budge DUNGEY

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DUNGEY, Peter Budge

Service Number:	WX2945
Enlisted:	20 May 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/16th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Beria, Western Australia, 12 June 1909
Home Town:	South Perth, South Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Pastoralist & Grazier
Died:	Killed in Action, Syria, 7 July 1941, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Beirut War Cemetery Grave reference 2 G 10,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement WX2945
20 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Sergeant, WX2945, 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion
20 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, WX2945, 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion
7 Jul 1941:	Involvement Sergeant, WX2945, 2nd/16th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Peter Budge DUNGEY was born on 12th June, 1909 in Beria, Western Australia to John Edward Fox DUNGEY and Dora Shirley BUDGE who had married in the Methodist Church in Gladstone, South Australia on 20th August, 1907

He was an Acting Sergeant with the 2/16th Australian Infantry Battalion and was Killed in Action on 7th July, 1941 in Syria when he volunteered to cut barbed wire defences with two other members of his unit at the Damour River in Syria

Peter is buried in Beirut War Cemetery and his name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the Roll of Honour in South Perth, Western Australia

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IN MEMORY

DUNGEY, on July 7 on active service, Peter Budge Dungey, dearly loved son of Mr. & Mrs. J E F Dungey of 37 Hensman St South Perth

Loved brother of Phyllis, Shirley, Jefferson (Mick) Frank & Kathleen

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His brother Jefferson Lapthorn DUNGEY also served in WW2

(SN W55043) discharged 1943 - re-enlisted (SN WX22631) discharged 1945

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