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]

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