Percy Raymond GRONO

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Service Number:	NX54517
Enlisted:	25 June 1940
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	2nd/12th Field Company / Squadron RAE
Born:	Fairfield, New South Wales, 6 May 1919
Home Town:	Fairfield, Fairfield, New South Wales
Schooling:	Faifield Public School
Occupation:	Railway Porter
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Borneo, 1 May 1945, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 6, Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

25 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, NX54517, Field Company Engineers, Paddington, Sydney
25 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX54517
1 May 1945:	Involvement Sapper, NX54517, 2nd/12th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Prisoners of War

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Percy Raymond GRONO was born in Fairfield, Sydney, NSW on 6th May, 1919

His parents were Frank GRONO & Wilhelmina ADYVEAN who married in Sydney in 1905