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AUST, Douglas George Irwin
Personal Details
Service Number: | VX47278 |
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Enlisted: | 17 July 1940, Caulfield, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Coburg, Victoria, Australia, 12 February 1919 |
Home Town: | Springvale, Greater Dandenong, Victoria |
Schooling: | Unknown |
Occupation: | Carpenter |
Died: | Killed in Action, Rabaul, Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, 4 February 1942, aged 22 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Dandenong Shire Roll of Honour, Noble Park Honour Roll, Rabaul Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
17 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Private, VX47278, Caulfield, Victoria | |
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17 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX47278, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion | |
4 Feb 1942: | Involvement Private, VX47278, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Australia's Northern Periphery |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Douglas George Irwin AUST was born on 12th February, 1919 in Coburg, Victoria
His parents were Edgar George AUST & Lillias Jane HUNTER
He married Ethel Margaret BODSWORTH in Victoria in 1939.