POTTER Allan Keith

Australian Army PoW Born Melbourne VIC 10 June 1920 Died Claremont WA 5 February 2015

Service No: WX6879.  Prewar joined 11th Infantry Battalion 1938. 1940 Australian Imperial Forces with the 2/28th Infantry Battalion wounded at Tobruk, hospitalized in Alexandria. Then Syria, El Alamein. Taken prisoner of war at Ruin Ridge 27 July 1942. Wounded, survived the torpedoing of the Nino Bixio while crossing the Mediterranean. Then in Italy and Germany. Soldiers on a short time after the war.

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