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Captain ERIC OSWALD NORTON

Service Number: NX34884
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/17 Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1943

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY

EE. D. 7.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Oswald Fenwick Norton and Mary Norton; husband of Joan Dorethea Gunning Norton, of Walcha, New South Wales.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 2819
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