Kenway Herbert BELL

BELL, Kenway Herbert

Service Number: NX115263
Enlisted: 21 July 1942
Last Rank: Staff Sergeant
Last Unit: Z Special Unit
Born: Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia, 14 July 1921
Home Town: Artarmon, Willoughby, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Audit Clerk
Died: Killed in Action, Timor, 17 May 1945, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
Coll grave 11, Row C, Graves 1-15
Memorials: Australian Commando Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement NX115263, Z Special Unit
21 Jul 1942: Enlisted
21 Jul 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, NX115263, Z Special Unit

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Biography

Other Service number N80711

Rank Staff Sergeant

Seved in 3 Tank Signals Regiment

Unit "Z" Special Unit - at death

Qualified parachutist

Medals: 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal, Australian Service Medal

Son of Herbert Lockhead Bell and Mabel Dorothy Bell, of Artarmon, New South Wales, Australia.