Francis Gordon KIRKPATRICK

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KIRKPATRICK, Francis Gordon

Service Number:	VX30813
Enlisted:	7 June 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Beaufort, Victoria, Australia, 22 August 1916
Home Town:	Beaufort, Pyrenees, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died at sea (Montevideo Maru), South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement VX30813
7 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, VX30813, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

VX30813 Acting Lance Corporal Francis Gordon Kirkpatrick served with the 2/22nd Australian Infantry Battalion, was captured at Rabaul and died as POW 1 July 1942 aboard the Japanese ship "Montevidio Maru”, age 25.

Francis’s father 4150 Cpl. Gilbert Andrew Kirkpatrick M.M. 39th Battalion AIF, died of wounds in 1918, without ever getting the chance to meet his son. Francis was born in August 1916, some five months after his father had left Australia to fight in the first Great War.

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