Robert Andrew LARSEN

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Service Number:	QX53929
Enlisted:	31 July 1943
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/5th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 10 December 1924
Home Town:	Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland
Schooling:	Queensland State School System.
Occupation:	Telegraph Messenger, Postmaster General (PMG)
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 7 August 1945, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery CWGC Grave Reference ~ Plot MM. Row C. Grave 14. Personal Inscription ~ "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE...EVER REMEMBERED"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bundaberg Civic Centre Memorial Portico, Postmaster-General's Dept. Qld. WW2

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, QX53929
31 Jul 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX53929
2 Mar 1944:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/5th Infantry Battalion

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