Tasman Albert LANGFORD

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LANGFORD, Tasman Albert

Service Number:	VX50078
Enlisted:	4 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4 Motor Regiment
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 28 March 1911
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Truck Driver
Died:	Bulleen, Melbourne, Victoria, 28 April 1977, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Templestowe Cemetery and Memorial Gardens, Victoria
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

4 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX50078
10 Apr 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX50078, 4 Motor Regiment, 4 Reserve Motor Transport Coy embarked Sydney for Singapore per HMT OO
6 Apr 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Reported MiA on 6 April 1942 Confirmed PoW Thailand: 3 November 1943 Transferred to Japan: 9 June 1945 (PoW Camp No:13055)
24 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX50078

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Tasman Albert Langford (Service No:VX50078) enlisted in the Army on 9 March 1941 and was attached to 4 Australian Reserve Motor Transport Coy on 10 April 1941 when he embarked from Sydney for Singapore on board HMT 00. Private Langford was Reported Missing in Action on 6 April 1942 and confirmed as a PoW of the Japanese in Thailand on 3 November 1943 (PoW No:13055). On 9 June 1945 Private Langford was transferred to Fukuoka PoW Camp - a mine and foundry in Japan, and was retrieved from the Japanese on 13 October 1945. Private Langford was Discharged on 24 December 1945.

Born in 1911 in Melbourne Victoria, Tasman was the fifth of seven children of Arthur James Langford (b1877 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Alice Ada Barnett (nee Brett; b1873 at Emerald Hll, Victoria). Arthur (a Letter Carrier) and Alice married in 1939 in Melbourne, Victoria where they had lived since the early 1900s. Arthur was Mail Officer/Mailman.

Tasman worked as a Truck Driver in Melbourne prior to his enlistment, and was a Mechanic in Melbourne in 1947 when he married Freda May Ling (b1919 in Penguin, Tasmania). Tasman and Frida settled in Melbourne where Tasman worked as a Mechanic. Frida died in 1970 and Tasman in 1977.

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