Jeffrey Ernest David ATWILL

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ATWILL, Jeffrey Ernest David

Service Number:	SX10964
Enlisted:	16 January 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park
Born:	Gloucestershire, England, 18 October 1919
Home Town:	Summertown, Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Motor Driver & Station Hand
Died:	Died in captivity as a PoW of the Japanese. Illness / malnourishment / mistreatment, Thailand, 27 November 1943, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Collective grave 10 E 2-12
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

16 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX10964
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Prisoners of War
27 Nov 1943:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), SX10964, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Malaya/Singapore

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Biography contributed

Jeffrey Ernest David ATWILL was born in Gloucestershire, England on 18th October, 1919

His foster parents were Rowland Edward PHELPS & Amy Celia STAFFORD who married in England in 1914 (Stroud)

Jeffrey died of Illness whilst a Prisoner of War of the Japanese in Thailand on 27th November, 1943 and is buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery

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