Ernest Roy HORKINGS

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Service Number:	VX31277
Enlisted:	11 June 1940, Royal Park, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Blackburn, Victoria, Australia, 6 October 1910
Home Town:	Montmorency, Banyule, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Timber worker/Truck driver
Died:	Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 29 April 1945, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Barnawartha War Memorial

11 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX31277, Royal Park, Victoria
11 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, VX31277
29 Apr 1945:	Involvement Lance Corporal, VX31277, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Prisoners of War

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