Philip Selwyn EAST

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Service Number:	NX17220
Enlisted:	24 May 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Stratford, New Zealand, 28 June 1911
Home Town:	Potts Point, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Died:	Killed in Action, El Alamein, Egypt, 25 October 1942, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	El Alamein War Cemetery Cemetery/memorial reference: XXII. A. 26., El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Marsa Matruh, Egypt
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

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3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Corporal, NX17220
24 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX17220, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
25 Oct 1942:	Involvement Corporal, NX17220, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, El Alamein, KIA

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