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Service Numbers:	NX120370, N201905
Enlisted:	1 December 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/7th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia, 12 June 1923
Home Town:	Gundagai, Gundagai, New South Wales
Schooling:	Certificate of Entry, Secondary School
Occupation:	Farming (Farm Hand)
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 14 August 1943, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery CWGC Grave Reference ~ Plot S. Row B. Grave 9. Personal Inscription ~ "R.I.P."
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gundagai Anzac Grove War Memorial, Gundagai District Roll of Honour WW2, Gundagai War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX120370
1 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N201905, 5th Training Battalion
9 Sep 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX120370, 2nd/7th Infantry Battalion

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