Gerald Joseph WOOD

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Service Number:	NX72192
Enlisted:	27 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Seymour, Victoria, Australia, 14 December 1919
Home Town:	Griffith, Griffith, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Printer
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, 12 December 1942, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea CWGC Grave No: Section A. Plot 7. Row D. Grave 21. Inscription: "IN THE SACRED CAUSE OF JUSTICE AND THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Griffith "We Will Remember Them" Plinths, Griffith Cenotaph

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX72192
27 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX72192, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion

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