Keith Joseph MARCHANT

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Service Number:	NX92054
Enlisted:	11 March 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia, 17 December 1920
Home Town:	Mount Pritchard, Fairfield, New South Wales
Schooling:	Certificate of Entry, Secondary School
Occupation:	Rubber Worker
Died:	Accidental (Booby Trap discharge), New Guinea, 27 February 1945, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery CWGC Grave Reference ~ Plot LL. Row C. Grave 10. Personal Inscription ~ "TREASURED MEMORIES OF MY DARLING HUSBAND...EVER REMEMBERED"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX92054
11 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX92054
7 Aug 1942:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion

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