WW2 Service Australian Army Rank Private NX23565
Posting on Death: 2/1st Pioneer Battalion, he died of wounds in Egypt.
The siege of Tobruk lasted from April to December 1941, he was one of the Rats of Tobruk
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Wollongong NSW, also his name is located at panel 72 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan).
Son of Robert and Isabella Paterson, of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
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Father Robert (Bert) Paterson (1892-1961)
Mother Isobella Ferguson (1887-1985)
Posting on Death: 2/1st Pioneer Battalion, he died of wounds in Egypt.
The siege of Tobruk lasted from April to December 1941, he was one of the Rats of Tobruk
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Wollongong NSW, also his name is located at panel 72 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan).
Son of Robert and Isabella Paterson, of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
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Father Robert (Bert) Paterson (1892-1961)
Mother Isobella Ferguson (1887-1985)
WW2 Service Australian Army Rank Private NX23565
Posting on Death: 2/1st Pioneer Battalion, he died of wounds in Egypt.
The siege of Tobruk lasted from April to December 1941, he was one of the Rats of Tobruk
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Wollongong NSW, also his name is located at panel 72 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan).
Son of Robert and Isabella Paterson, of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
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Father Robert (Bert) Paterson (1892-1961)
Mother Isobella Ferguson (1887-1985)
Posting on Death: 2/1st Pioneer Battalion, he died of wounds in Egypt.
The siege of Tobruk lasted from April to December 1941, he was one of the Rats of Tobruk
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Wollongong NSW, also his name is located at panel 72 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan).
Son of Robert and Isabella Paterson, of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
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Father Robert (Bert) Paterson (1892-1961)
Mother Isobella Ferguson (1887-1985)
Inscription
"Never Was So Much Owed By So Many, To So Few"
Gravesite Details
Recorded as Patterson on RoT listing
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