Allan James RALPH

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Service Number:	VX46081
Enlisted:	17 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Drouin, Victoria, Australia, 19 October 1915
Home Town:	Bunyip, Cardinia, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Butcher
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 5 July 1945, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 17. Row D. Grave 11. Inscription: "HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN PEACE"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bunyip War Memorial, Neerim War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX46081
17 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX46081
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Captured and detained by the Japanese Occupation Force, at Tan Toey (Tantui) Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) Camp, Ambon Island.
5 Jun 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Member of Gull Force, died on this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese. Nature of death recorded as beri beri.

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