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Biographical Dictionary - Coorow, Carnamah, Three Springs


Surname

Maurice William LEWIS

Born 23 September 1921 in Subiaco, Western Australia [16] [84]
Son of Robert Charles LEWIS and Mary Ann Louisa MEDHURST [84]
Resided with his parents and siblings on William B. MITCHELL's farm in Dudawa, East Arrino 1922-1929 [6] [19] [P2]
Following his father's death in 1929 lived with his mother and siblings at a farmhouse near Arrino and then in the Arrino townsite [P2]
Along with his siblings Albert, Jack and Pearl he was baptised on 7 February 1932 by the North Midlands Methodist Missioner [84]
Farmhand in Arrino [P2]
Resided in Arrino until enlisting in the Australian Army on 4 December 1940 [16]
Private WX9616 in the Australian Army's 2/28 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
He had been a Prisoner of War, and was accidentally Killed in Action at sea in the Middle East on 17 August 1942 [16] [17] [18]
Memorialised on the Alamein Memorial at the El Alamein War Cemetery in Egypt[17]


Reference:  Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Maurice William Lewis' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 29 March 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/maurice-william-lewis [reference list]




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