James (Jim) GILMOUR

GILMOUR, James

Service Number: WX8623
Enlisted: 18 October 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, 2 June 1920
Home Town: Welshpool, Canning, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nursery man / Gardener
Died: Natural Causes, Perth, Western Australia, 25 February 2003, aged 82 years
Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
Burial reference: - Lance Howard Memorial Gardens-Garden Bw - Virgo-0012.
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

18 Oct 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8623
16 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Survived imprisonment by the Japanese Imperial Forces. Repatriated to Australia at the end of the war and discharged.
13 May 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8623, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Duration of war.

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - Hugh Gilmour and Helen Knox married in Scotland, United Kingdom and migrated to Australia arriving 11th November 1923 at Fremantle, Western Australia, aboard the "Balranald"

Wife: - Leoni Blanche Ellis married 15th December 1945
 at St Andrews Church,Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Prisoner of War details: -  Private James Gilmour ( WX8623)  was captured by Japanese Imperial Forces after the Battle of Singapore. PoW number 8780, ‘D’ Force Thailand, S Battalion,  he was detained at the following PoW camps in Singapore: - Selarang Camp Changi; Johore Bahru; Adam Park; Sime Road Camp; Selarang Barracks Changi.

Thailand: - Kanu II , Kanu I River Camp, Tarsau (evacuated by barge with cholera), Konkoita; Kinsaiyok, Tarsau, Chungkai, Tardan, Kachu Mountain Camp. Kachu Mountain was the last camp at which James was when the war ended, in 1945 he returned to Australia via Thailand-Singapore by aircraft; Singapore-Fremantle, prior to discharge.

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