Service Details
Name:
 MITCHELL
Given Name:
 KENNETH ROSS
Initials:
 K R
Service No:
 NX68224
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 Australian Army Dental Corps
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Unit:
 A.I.F. 19 Special Dental Unit.
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Date of Death:
 1942-07-01
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Date of Birth:
 1920-06-05
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Died at sea, on Montevideo Maru, a Japanese auxiliary ship that was sunk by allied submarine USS Sturgeon, resulting in the drowning of a large number of Australian prisoners of war and civilians being transported from Rabaul.
Additional
Information:
Son of William Taylor Mitchell and Pauline Elizabeth Mitchell, of Guildford, New South Wales. Born Klipkraal, South Africa
Commemoration
Country:
 Papua New Guinea
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Cemetery:
 RABAUL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 32.

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