Colin Dudley GRIGGS

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Service Number:	TX4303
Enlisted:	27 January 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/24th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Franklin, Tasmania, Australia, 23 January 1912
Home Town:	Franklin, Huon Valley, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor Driver
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 8 December 1943, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot CC. Row A. Grave 14. Personal Inscription ~ "IN MEMORY OF OUR AFFECTIONATE SON AND BROTHER... GOD BE WITH YOU"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Wangaratta 2/24th Infantry Battalion Memorial Wall

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, TX4303
27 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX4303, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion

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