Rupert Lloyd (Lloyd) JELLETT

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Service Number:	VX32413
Enlisted:	1 July 1940, Royal Park, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Essendon, Victoria, Australia, 19 October 1919
Home Town:	Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Kiln burner
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Thailand, 13 January 1944, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Grave 1.A.27
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

1 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX32413, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, Royal Park, Victoria
1 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX32413, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
22 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
13 Jan 1944:	Involvement Private, VX32413, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, Prisoners of War

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