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SPROULE, Francis Oliver Goldsmith
Personal Details
Service Number: | NX4839 |
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Enlisted: | 20 October 1939 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Dublin, Ireland, 8 January 1912 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Wesley College, Ballinteer Road, Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Killed in Action, Papua, 23 October 1942, aged 30 years |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Moresby (Bomana) Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX4839 | |
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20 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX4839, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
A.I.F. 2/3 Bn.Australian Infantry
He was 30 and the son of Peter Kyan Sproule and Marie Serina Sproule; husband of Joyce Daphne Sproule, of Tamworth, New South Wales. He is remembered on the Wesley College World War II Memorial, Ballinteer Road, Dundrum, Dublin 16.