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Corporal DESMOND GRIMLEY KING

Service Number: NX8754
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/2 Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 October 1942

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY

C7. B. 11.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Ralph William and Myra King, of Gordon, New South Wales.
  • Personal Inscription ELDEST SON OF RALPH AND MYRA KING OF SYDNEY
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Buried or commemorated at

PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 3828
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