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Sergeant ROBERT FRED WURTZ

Service Number: 78791
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Air Force

Date of Death

Died 28 September 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY

FF. B. 6.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander Gilmore Wurtz and Florence Theresa Wurtz; husband of Doreen Wurtz, of Sellheim, Queensland.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR LIBERTY EVER REMEMBERED BY WIFE AND SON
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Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 2819
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