John Edward HARRIS

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Service Number:	VX39927
Enlisted:	24 February 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Dulwich Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 1 July 1918
Home Town:	Middle Park, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Honey Grader
Died:	Illness , Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 2 April 1945, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 24. Row A. Grave 4. Inscription: "HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR US WE SHALL NOT FORGET "JACK" …R.I.P."
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX39927
24 Feb 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX39927
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Captured and detained by the Japanese Occupation Force, at Tan Toey (Tantui) Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) Camp, Ambon Island.
2 Apr 1945:	Involvement Other Commonwealth Forces, Private, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Member of Gull Force, died on this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese. Nature of death recorded as beri beri.

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