Rex Keylock FRENCH

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FRENCH, Rex Keylock

Service Number:	N224445
Enlisted:	13 February 1942, Randwick
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 10 November 1923
Home Town:	Daceyville, Randwick, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not known
Occupation:	Apprentice Process Engraver
Died:	Illness, Cowra, New South Wales, Australia, 14 March 1943, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Cowra War Cemetery, NSW Plot D, Row D, Grave 3, Cowra War Cemetery, Cowra, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

13 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, N224445, Randwick
13 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N224445, Infantry Training Battalions
14 Mar 1943:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, N224445, 28th Infantry Battalion, Training Battalion

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Rex Keylock FRENCH was born on 10th November, 1923 in Sydney

His parents were Percival Vaughan FRENCH & Ivy Ellen Harris BONNER who married in Sydney on 21st March, 1925

Rex died suddenly of Illness at Cowra on 14th March, 1943 and is buried in the Cowra War Cemetery

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the Roll of Honour in Kingsford, Sydney

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His Father Percival Vaughan FRENCH (SN 1410) served in WW1 and returned to Australia in 1919 and his Uncle Russell Sullivan FRENCH (SN 1417) also served in WW1 and returned in 1919

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