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Private Albert Norman (Bert) Ward

Service number SX9994
Birth Date 18/05/1919
Birth Place Australia: South Australia, Adelaide, Kensington
Death Date c August 2018
Final Rank Private
Service Australian Army
Place Kensington
Conflict/Operation Second World War, 1939-1945

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    'Reflections – Honouring our World War Two Veterans'

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date of birth
Date of birth 18/05/1919
Date of death c August 2018

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Conflicts

  • Second World War, 1939-1945

Units

  • Australian Army

Places

  • Kensington

Objects

  • S00906
  • S02352
  • S02364

Related Objects

  • 'Reflections – Honouring our World War Two Veterans'
  • Albert Norman 'Bert' Ward as a private, 2/27 Battalion, interviewed by Rob Linn for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-1945
  • Sergeant Jack Breakey, D Company; Private Albert N (Bert) Ward, D Company; Sergeant Roy Thredgold, D Company; and Warrant Office Alain Thomson, Signals and Brigade HQ SX2980; 2/27th Battalion, interviewed by Peter Brune on 8 April 1989
  • Corporal Clive E Edwards and Private Albert Norman (Bert) Ward, D Company, interviewed by Peter Brune on 8 March 1993
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