Arthur Roy BLACKWELL

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BLACKWELL, Arthur Roy

Service Number:	NX1864
Enlisted:	1 November 1939, Manilla, NSW
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/2nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Manilla, New South Wales, Australia, 13 September 1915
Home Town:	Manilla, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Wool Classer
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, 5 November 1942, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Manilla Heritage Museum BLACKWELL/ROBERTS Memorial Plaque, Port Moresby (Bomana) Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement NX1864
1 Nov 1939:	Enlisted Sergeant, NX1864, 2nd/2nd Infantry Battalion, Manilla, NSW
1 Nov 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, NX1864, 2nd/2nd Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of James Aubrey and Elizabeth Blackwell, of Manilla, New South Wales

Pte. Blackwell joined the A.I.F. in October 1939. He sailed in January 1940; took part in the Lybian Campaign at Bardia and Tobruk; took part in the Campaign in Greece and with ten other soldiers escaped in a boat from Greece, travelled through Turkey and rejoined his unit.

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