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COVEY, Horace Jack
Personal Details
Service Number: | VX21715 |
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Enlisted: | 4 June 1940, Caulfield, Vic. |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE |
Born: | Bently, England, 15 July 1919 |
Home Town: | Bittern, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Illness, Thailand, 30 November 1943, aged 24 years |
Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery 1 B 4 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Balnarring St. Mark's WW2 Honour Roll |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sapper, VX21715 | |
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4 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX21715, 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Caulfield, Vic. |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Charles Thomas Covey and Ada Covey; husband of Alice Mary Lewin Covey, of Ringwood, Victoria, Australia.
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