Mervyn Leslie WEST

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Service Number:	TX4161
Enlisted:	28 October 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia , 28 June 1920
Home Town:	Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Occupation:	Professional Soldier
Died:	Illness (war related), General Hospital Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 1 January 1947, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania Burial reference: - Section C7. Grave 87.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance

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3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lance Corporal, TX4161
28 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, TX4161, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
22 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Recovered from Japanese at Siam.
11 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, TX4161, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, Recovered from Japanese as a prisoner of war, returned to Australian and discharged.

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