Training |
Recruitment |
Training in Australia
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Voyage
to Singapore |
Training in Malaya
Arrived 25/9/1941
Departed 1200hrs 8/12/1941
Death of L/Sgt.
Kenneth Lindsay
While the Battalion was at Batu Pahat,
L/Sgt. Kenneth Lindsay, became the first casualty in Malaya. He was
badly injured while playing football, and died on 10/11/1941.
He was given a full military funeral
and buried in the A.I.F. cemetery at Malacca. His grave was later
transferred to the Kranji Cemetery in Singapore.
(Source: Galleghan's
Greyhounds and Makan No. 248)
2/30 Battalion First Anniversary - 22/11/1941
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