Kelvin Norman KOOREY

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KOOREY, Kelvin Norman

Service Number:	NX18470
Enlisted:	29 May 1940, Paddington, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Ballina, New South Wales, Australia, 17 December 1917
Home Town:	Queanbeyan, Queanbeyan, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Storekeeper
Died:	Natural causes, 1998, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

29 May 1940:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, NX18470, Paddington, New South Wales
29 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX18470, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion
30 Jan 1941:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, NX18470, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion, Libya/North Africa
5 Apr 1941:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, NX18470, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion, "Operation Lustre" Greece 1941
6 Nov 1942:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, NX18470, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion, Kokoda - Papua
25 Mar 1943:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, NX18470, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion
25 Mar 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX18470, 2nd/3rd Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

'I was lucky with my life' 05 October 2017 by Claire Hunter

After the Second World War, Kelvin Koorey had a saying: “I was unlucky with my money, but I was lucky with my life.” And lucky he was. A bullet left a crease in his helmet in Syria, one passed through the sleeve of his greatcoat in Greece, and a sniper’s bullet hit him in the head and lodged in his jaw at Kokoda.

When he came home, he kept his damaged helmet, along with a patch of his great coat and the bullet from Kokoda, in a box as a sign of his good luck. His son Brian donated the items to the Australian War Memorial, along with a two-up set Kelvin used during the war, and a Japanese fountain pen and watch that Kel’s brother-in-law collected at Kokoda..." - READ MORE LINK (www.awm.gov.au)

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