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Private JACK BAYFORD COLLITT

Service Number: VX111942
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 37/52 Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1945

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RABAUL (BITA PAKA) WAR CEMETERY

F. C. 6.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert Bayford Collitt and Hilda Harriet Louisa Collitt, of Glen Iris, Victoria, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription HE SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS WE WHO ARE LEFT GROW OLD
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Buried or commemorated at

RABAUL (BITA PAKA) WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 1153
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