Jack EDWARDS

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Service Number:	VX37682
Enlisted:	22 July 1940, Royal Park, Victoria
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia , 17 March 1906
Home Town:	Mornington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Caretaker
Died:	Executed (POW of Japan), Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, 4 February 1942, aged 35 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea Panel 15
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial

22 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX37682, Royal Park, Victoria
22 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, VX37682, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
23 Jul 1940:	Involvement Private, VX37682
4 Apr 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX37682, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Embarked Sydney to disembark in Rabaul on 26 April 1941.
4 Feb 1942:	Involvement Sergeant, VX37682, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Australia's Northern Periphery
4 Feb 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, VX37682, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Executed (POW of Japan)

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