John Francis (Jack) KELLY

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Service Number:	VX39953
Enlisted:	25 February 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Glenferrie, (Now Hawthorn), Victoria, Australia, 5 May 1919
Home Town:	Bentleigh, Glen Eira, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Fibrous Plasterer
Died:	Execution, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 22 November 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 21. Row B. Collective Grave 5-14. Inscription: "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN. HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS LOVED ONES"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX39953, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
25 Feb 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX39953
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.
22 Nov 1942:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Member of Gull Force, executed on this or after this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese Occupation Force.

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Son of William Peter Kelly born 21st September 1886 and Catherine Laidlaw born 1881.

Cemetery details: Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia

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