Lieutentant Colonel Arthur Samuel Key

Service number	VX148
Birth Date	01/07/1906
Birth Place	Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Hawthorn
Death Date	10/09/1942
Death Place	Papua
Final Rank	Lieutentant Colonel
Service	Australian Army
Unit	2/14th Australian Infantry Battalion
Places	Hawthorn Papua
Conflict/Operation	Second World War, 1939-1945

Collection items

Date of birth	01/07/1906
Other units	13/05/1927	52nd Battalion.
Date commissioned	13/05/1927
Other units	21/03/1935	37/52nd Battalion.
Other units	17/11/1938	52nd Battalion.
Other units	28/12/1939	2/8th Battalion.
Date and unit at enlistment (ORs)	01/11/1939	Enlisted 2nd AIF.
Other units	13/10/1939	Seconded major Headquarters 17th Brigade.
Other	1940-07-22 - 1940-08-26	Course Middle East Tactical School.
Other	1941-07-28 - 1941-08-09	Course Middle East Combined Training Centre.
Other	c 1941-04-02	Arrived Greece.
Other units	1942-07-18 - 1942-08-05	Attached Headquarters 21st Brigade.
Date of death	10/09/1942
Date returned to Australia	24/03/1942	Adelaide.
Date promoted	14/01/1942	Temporary lieutenant colonel.
Other units	1942-01-14 - 1942-08-30	2/14th Battalion.
Other	02/04/1943	Missing in action believed prisoner of war.