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GREEN, Eric Hedley
Personal Details
Service Number: | SX11940 |
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Enlisted: | 25 March 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, 25 February 1921 |
Home Town: | Penola, Wattle Range, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Tinsmith |
Died: | Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Thailand, 24 August 1943, aged 22 years |
Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery 1 J 64, Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Kalangadoo War Memorial Park Gates, Naracoorte War Memorial, Penola War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
25 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Private, SX11940, Wayville, South Australia | |
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25 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX11940 | |
18 Feb 1942: | Involvement Private, SX11940, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Australia's Northern Periphery, "Blackforce" Java | |
7 Mar 1942: | Imprisoned Java | |
24 Aug 1943: | Involvement Private, SX11940, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Prisoners of War |
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