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MALE, Archie Graham
Personal Details
Service Number: | WX11972 |
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Enlisted: | 29 April 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Dorset, England, 29 August 1911 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Hale School |
Occupation: | labourer |
Died: | Accidental, At sea (Nino Bixio), Mediterranean Sea, 17 August 1942, aged 30 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Col 93, |
Memorials: | Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Three Springs War Memorial, Wembley Downs Hale School Honour Roll 2, Wembley Downs Hale School Memorial Grove |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX11972 | |
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29 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX11972, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Archie, known as Graham, was the third of four children. His father Archie was the Mayor of Broome, WA; he died in 1922 aged 45 (see obituary: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/260938035). Both of his brothers (Theodore and Thomas) also enlisted in WWII; neither served overseas.