Arthur Stewart REED

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Service Number:	TX3694
Enlisted:	2 July 1940, Enlisted at Launceston, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sheffield, Tasmania, Australia, 10 September 1917
Home Town:	Roland, Kentish, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Illness, Thailand, 11 September 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Plot 1, Row M, Grave 22
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Sheffield War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, TX3694
2 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, TX3694, Enlisted at Launceston, Tasmania
2 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX3694, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion

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Son of Florence Ivy Reed of Roland, Tasmania

Also served in the Militia - service number 231785. Joined the MIlitia on 18 November 1928

Died while a Prisoner of War with the Japanese

Headstone inscription reads: His duty nobly done. Ever remembered

Roll of Honour - Sheffield, Tasmania