Keven Gordon HOBSON

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Service Number:	NX4595
Enlisted:	8 November 1939
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Commando Squadron
Born:	Young, New South Wales, Australia, 10 February 1918
Home Town:	Grenfell, Weddin, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 13 March 1945, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot TT. Row C. Grave 7. Personal Inscription ~ "HE LIVED TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY AND EMPIRE"
Memorials:	Australian Commando Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Grenfell Other Wars Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Trooper, NX4595
8 Nov 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX4595
27 Dec 1944:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Trooper, 2nd/10th Commando Squadron

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