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KENNEDY, Horace Colin

Service Number:	NX59787
Enlisted:	30 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 9 May 1917
Home Town:	Waverley, Waverley, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Mental nurse
Died:	Gorokan, New South Wales, Australia, 9 February 1986, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

30 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX59787, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
30 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, NX59787
10 Jul 1941:	Involvement Private, NX59787, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, Siege of Tobruk
25 Oct 1942:	Wounded Private, NX59787, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, El Alamein, WIA (G.S.W. Rt shoulder)
11 Jan 1944:	Discharged Private, NX59787, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, Sydney, NSW
11 Jan 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX59787, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement Private, NX59787, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Jeffrey Crisdale

WIA El Alamein