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Service Number:	VX27357
Enlisted:	15 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/5th Infantry Battalion
Born:	London, England, 30 August 1909
Home Town:	Hamilton, Southern Grampians, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Timber Worker / Mill Hand
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 31 January 1943, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery CWGC Grave Reference ~ Plot H. Row D. Grave 3. Personal Inscription ~ "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE. EVER IN MY MEMORY"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX27357
15 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX27357
14 Sep 1941:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/5th Infantry Battalion

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