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Captain PHILIP WILLIAM NELLIGAN

Service Number: WX1581
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Artillery

A.I.F. 2/12 Fd. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 24 September 1943

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY

BB. A. 3.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of William Thomas Nelligan and Alice May Nelligan; husband of Teresa Helena Nelligan, of Shenton Park, Western Australia.
  • Personal Inscription MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL...R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 2819
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