John Edward BLACKMAN

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BLACKMAN, John Edward

Service Number:	NX91017
Enlisted:	3 March 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/13th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, 25 February 1921
Home Town:	Cootamundra, Cootamundra, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Mill Packer
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua New Guinea, 22 September 1943, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot DD, Row A, Grave 8. Personal Inscription: - "A GREAT SOLDIER AND A GREAT PAL".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cootamundra RSL Honour Rolls, Cootamundra War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX91017
3 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX91017, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - John Percival Blackman and Mary Veronica MacCaffrey married 1913 in Gunnedah, New South Wales

Wife: - Kathleen Agnes Mary Sibraa (married 1943
Sydney, New South Wales) of Cootamundra New South Wales.

John was born 25th February 1923 in Gunnedah, New South Wales, he enlisted on 1st June 1940 in Wagga Wagga, stating he was born in 1920. Wounded in action 20th March 1941, Axis Operation, Sonnenblume. John was part of Siege of Tobruk, Libya
Part of HQ Guards Battalion, where he received a shrapnel wound to leg on 4th August 1941. ("A RAT of Tobruk")
John returned to Australia for discharge 30th October 1941 at fathers request and being underaged. He reenlisted on 28th November 1941.

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