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Service Number:	NG2062
Enlisted:	20 January 1942
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer Class 2
Last Unit:	Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit
Born:	Pontefract, Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, 9 October 1900
Home Town:	Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Schooling:	Technical (Coal mining)
Occupation:	Prospector / Goldminer
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 7 June 1943, aged 42 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery CWGC Grave Reference ~ Plot 1B. Row B. Grave 12. Personal Inscription ~ "THY WILL BE DONE"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Corporal, NG2062, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit
20 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, NG2062, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit

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