Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War II (1939-1945)

Date of Enlistment

21/10/1941

Place of Enlistment

Canberra ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

28/04/1922

Place of Birth

Araluen NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Causeway (Kingston) ACT,
(North Araluen NSW on AWM Roll of Honour circular)

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Son of Cecil and Ethel May Mundy, of North Araluen NSW.

Burial Place

Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea: grave C5. D. 19. (Soputa War Cemetery, grave W.C.6 on AWM Roll of Honour circular)

Service Number

N243350

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

3 Battalion (AMF)

Died 25 November 1942 aged 20 years, killed in action Gona, Papua

AWM Roll of Honour, Canberra ACT: Panel 64.
Roll of Honour, Araluen NSW
St John the Baptist Anglican Church, Reid, Book of Remembrance of Canberra parishioners who died in the war of 1939-45, in recess in south wall of nave.

Alex Mundy enlisted in the 3 Battalion on 21 October 1941 after being mobilised two months earlier. He embarked from Townville in May 1942 for Port Moresby where he was one of a number of 3 Battalion men hospitalised with measles. He rejoined his unit in July and on 5 September 1942 was detached to Maroubra Force.

It was then that the 3rd Battalion entered the Kokoda track and took part in the Australian defence at Imita Ridge and Ioribaiwa. Thereafter they patrolled forward through Menari, Efogi and Templeton's Crossing, though Mundy was hospitalised with dysentery at the end of September.

Mundy rejoined 3 Battalion as the Japanese retreated to their strongholds at Gona, Buna and Sanananda on the north coast of Papua. 3 Battalion were part of the campaign at Gona during November 1942 where Alex Mundy was killed in action on 25 November. He was initially buried at Gona but was reinterred in Gona War Cemetery in 1943.

Australia. Department of Veterans' Affairs. World War 2 nominal roll. http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Debt of Honour Register. <http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/search/>
AWM Roll of Honour and Roll of Honour Circulars <http://www.awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp>
Don Mountain ed. Monumental inscriptions: Australian Capital Territory, including Jervis Bay. Canberra, Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001 (p.41)
NAA RecordSearch
Colin Kennedy, 'Port Moresby to Gona Beach. 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion 1942', 1992
The Canberra Times - 25 November 1943