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Corporal EDWARD WILLIAM GESCH

Service Number: QX59556
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Army Catering Corps

Date of Death

Died 12 January 1945

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY

A4. B. 5.

Papua New Guinea

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 47 Bn. Australian Infantry
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Karl and Bertha Regina Gesch; husband of Marjorie Gesch, of Barolin, Queensland.
  • Personal Inscription SADLY MISSED
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Buried or commemorated at

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