William Gildas HANNAN

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Service Number:	NX128074
Enlisted:	30 July 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 20 January 1914
Home Town:	Five Dock, Canada Bay, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Truck Driver
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 11 October 1943, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot E, Row A, Grave 1. Personal Inscription: - "A SILENT TRIBUTE TO A LOVING SON AND BROTHER"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX128074
30 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX128074, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion

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Parents: - William Michael Hannan and Florence Elsie Smith (married 1908, Goulburn, New South Wales), of Five Dock, New South Wales.