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Sergeant DONALD WILLIAM LAY

Service Number: 408248
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Air Force

Date of Death

Died 09 January 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY

A3. A. 26.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Alfred and Olive May Lay, of Launceston, Tasmania.
  • Personal Inscription THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD
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Buried or commemorated at

PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 3826
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