Edwin Peter TIVEY MID

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Service Numbers:	VX15648, SN VX15648
Enlisted:	17 May 1940
Last Rank:	Major
Last Unit:	2nd/23rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 10 March 1909
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness, Italy, 26 March 1943, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Bari War Cemetery X. D. 10.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Black Rock Royal Melbourne Golf Club Honour Roll WW2

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Major, VX15648
17 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Major, VX15648, 2nd/23rd Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Major, SN VX15648, 2/23 Bn. Australian Infantry
Date unknown:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches

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He was 34 and the son of Major General Edwin Tivey, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., and Annie Bird Tivey, of Toorak, Victoria, Australia.