James Matthew ROLFE

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Service Numbers:	N109133, NX37594
Enlisted:	21 April 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/30th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Inverell, New South Wales, Australia, 29 October 1912
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Compositor
Died:	Illness, Thailand, 11 March 1944, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Plot 1,Row H. Grave25
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Inverell Flanders House WW2 Honour Roll

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N109133
21 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX37594, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion

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Private A Company

Changi Prison and A Force on the Burma Railway

Served as RIXIN. Son of Matthew and Hilda Myrtle Rolfe, of Inverell, New South Wales, Australia.

James Matthew ROLFE was born in Inverell, NSW on 29th October, 1912

His parents were Matthew ROLFE & Hilda Myrtle RIXON who married in Inverell in 1911

He married Ivy Eileen May HADDON in Inverell in 1932