Reginald Roy SANDERS

SANDERS, Reginald Roy

Service Number: N210135
Enlisted: 24 April 1941
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 16 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born: Weatherill Park, New South Wales, Australia , 30 July 1914
Home Town: Huskisson, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Injuries, Moora Western Australia, 15 March 1943, aged 28 years
Cemetery: Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia
Plot N. Row B. Gravesite 16.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Moora Australia Remembers 4th Infantry Battalion Memorial
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World War 2 Service

24 Apr 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N210135, 16 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Steve Larkins

Reginald Roy SANDERS (1914-1943)

Reginald Sanders had enlisted into the Militia's 4th Infantry Battalion, originally a NSW-based unit.  See Unit history HERE (/explore/units/999)

He was one of fourteen soldiers of the 4th Infantry Battalion killed on 15th March 1943 near the Battalion camp outside of Moora.They were killed when a mortar bomb, being closely examined by the group, exploded, killing all of them.

The funeral took place at Moora Cemetery on 16th March, 1943.  The bodies were transferred to Karrakatta Cemetery after the cessation of the war.

 

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