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BLEE, Arthur Edward

Service Number:	QX10773
Enlisted:	9 July 1940, Maryborough, Queensland
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Arlsesy, England, United Kingdom, 18 July 1902
Home Town:	Mundubbera, North Burnett, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Natural causes (old age), Bundaberg, Queensland, 21 January 2006, aged 103 years
Cemetery:	Maryborough Lawn Cemetery, Queensland Buried with wife Joan Frances BLEE; Garden of Rest ix - 1675. Also official commemoration at the Queensland Garden of Remembrance; Memorial Location: Wall 22/Row A.
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

9 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, QX10773, Maryborough, Queensland
9 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX10773, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
10 Jul 1940:	Involvement Private, QX10773
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
5 Feb 1946:	Discharged Signaller, QX10773, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
5 Feb 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX10773, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Daniel Bishop

Son of John E.G & Emily L.K BLEE

Husband of Joan France (nee Moore) BLEE