NORTON KNIGHT, Malcolm Osborne
| Service Number: | NX53870 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Bombardier |
| Last Unit: | 103 aka 3 Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 19 October 1916 |
| Home Town: | Bowral, Wingecarribee, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Harden, New South Wales, Australia , 15 May 1980, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, NX53870, 103 aka 3 Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment | |
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| 1 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Bombardier, NX53870, 103 aka 3 Anti Tank / Tank Attack Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Malcolm was the third of four sons born to Arthur Gerald NORTON-KNIGHT and Mary Broughton OSBORNE.
Malcolm and two of his brothers enlisted in Paddington NSW on the same day - 9 Jul 1940. All three entered service as troopers in the 3rd Anti-Tank Regiment and all embarked overseas.
Their father Arthur died in the Berrima District Hospital in Dec 1940. Mary must have despaired when her youngest son Henry enlisted as well, in Jan 1942.
The war was particularly cruel to this family. The three eldest brothers became POWs in 1942. All three were aboard the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 Aug 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy.
Malcolm and his brother Gerald were two of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident. The eldest Osborne died of his wounds. Only four months later, the youngest, Henry, died of his wounds in New Guinea on New Year's Day, 1943.
Malcolm married Mary Stewart ANDERSON in Moree NSW in 1947 (reg. 11719). He died in 1980 aged 63.