Wallace Lanvel ECCLESTON

ECCLESTON, Wallace Lanvel

    Service Number: NX36225
    Enlisted: 9 July 1940, Wagga Wagga
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Adaminaby, New South Wales, Australia, 13 November 1919
    Home Town: Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
    Schooling: Public School, New South Wales, Australia
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Died Of Wounds, Alexandria, Egypt, 30 October 1942, aged 22 years
    Cemetery: Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
    Cemetery/memorial reference: 4. C. 5.,
    Memorials: Adaminaby St. John's Anglican Church WW2 Roll of Honour, Adaminaby War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Wagga Wagga Cenotaph
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    World War 2 Service

    3 Sep 1939: Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX36225
    9 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX36225, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, Wagga Wagga
    30 Oct 1942: Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX36225, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, El Alamein, DOW

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    Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

    Wallace Lanvel ECCLESTON was born in Adaminaby, NSW on 13th November, 1919

    His parents were Arthur Ambrose ECCLESTON & Amelia Jane GIDDINGS who married in Adaminaby in 1905

    His brother Henry John Raymond ECCLESTON (SN NX60664) died on 27th October, 1942, 3 days before Wallace - he was also with the 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion & is buried in the same cemetery

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