Frederick John ANNESLEY

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ANNESLEY, Frederick John

Service Number:	WX7905
Enlisted:	13 August 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Collie, Western Australia, 23 March 1916
Home Town:	Collie, Collie, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Printer - Local Newspaper
Died:	Died at sea (POW Rakuyo Maru), South China Sea, 16 September 1944, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia

World War 2 Service

13 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), WX7905
13 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, WX7905, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Leslie Wenbam Annesley and Janet Annesley; husband of Margaret Madge Annesley, of Scarborough, Western Australia.

He survived the horrors of Burma-Thai Railway to lose his life with the sinking of ‘Rakuyo Maru’ on their journey from Singapore to Japan in the South China China after it was hit by American Submarine torpedoes.

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