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FOOTE, Henry Frank
Personal Details
Service Number: | SX9623 |
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Enlisted: | 25 July 1940 |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
Born: | Quorn, South Australia, 8 March 1912 |
Home Town: | Kimba, Kimba, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Grader Operator |
Died: | Ilness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Burma, 29 October 1943, aged 31 years |
Cemetery: |
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Headstone Located at A3. A. 20., Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Thanbyuzayat, Mon State, Myanmar |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Kimba WW2 Roll of Honour, Quorn and District Roll of Honour WW2 |
Service History
World War 2 Service
25 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Private, SX9623, Recruit Reception and General Details Depot (S.A.), Adelaide, South Australia | |
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25 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX9623, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
31 Jul 1940: | Transferred Private, 3 Infantry Training Depot, Wayville Show Grounds | |
21 Nov 1940: | Promoted Lance Corporal, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Graded to A/Group 3 Driver Mech. 16 Nov. 1940. | |
15 Jan 1941: | Transferred Private, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Located in South Australia | |
23 Jan 1941: | Embarked Private, SX9623, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), South Australian Unit members entrained from 4MD to 3MD for pre embarkation. | |
2 Feb 1941: | Embarked Lance Corporal, SX9623, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Embarked at Sydney on Ship HT QX 1 | |
19 Feb 1941: | Embarked Lance Corporal, SX9623, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Disembarked in Singapore. | |
3 Apr 1941: | Embarked Lance Corporal, SX9623, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Appointed Specialist 2 Mechanic Malaya | |
27 Jun 1941: | Wounded Lance Corporal, SX9623, 2nd/4th Casualty Clearing Station, Admitted with ulcers and rashes. | |
15 Jul 1941: | Transferred Lance Corporal, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Return to duties in Malaya. | |
16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Reported missing in Malaya as per POW Report NO 34. | |
15 Jun 1943: | Imprisoned Reported as accidentally wounded in Thai Camp. | |
29 Oct 1943: | Imprisoned Frank Henry Foote died in a Thai POW. The court of Inquiry held by senior POW officers within the Camp recorded their findings. The Court of inquiry reports that the disease was due to the conditions of service, was not due to neglect, misconduct, carelessness or failure to obey regulations, cause of death was cerebral malaria, and myocardial failure. The deceased died at 1630. 29. 10. 1943. SX9623 Private H.F Foote 2/2 Reserve M.T Coy. was buried at 105 Kilo Camp Angenaung Cemetery Grave 39. |
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