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WALMSLEY, Edward James
Personal Details
Service Number: | NX60374 |
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Enlisted: | 18 July 1940 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Gunning, New South Wales, Australia, 4 November 1910 |
Died: | Killed in Action, Jivevaneng, New Guinea, 29 October 1943, aged 32 years |
Cemetery: |
Lae War Cemetery Cemetery/memorial reference: CC. B. 14., Lae War Cemetery, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gunning Saint Edmund's Anglican Church Memorial Window, Yass Methodist Circuit WW2 Roll of Honour, Yass WW2 Honour Roll |
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World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX60374 | |
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18 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Private, NX60374, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion | |
18 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX60374, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion | |
11 Apr 1941: | Involvement Private, NX60374, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, Siege of Tobruk | |
23 Oct 1942: | Involvement Private, NX60374, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, El Alamein | |
29 Oct 1943: | Involvement Private, NX60374, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, New Guinea - Huon Peninsula / Markham and Ramu Valley /Finisterre Ranges Campaigns, KIA |
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