ANNETTS, Albert Brian Walter
Service Number: | WX13515 |
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Enlisted: | 24 May 1941 |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
Born: | Subiaco, Western Australia, 1 September 1918 |
Home Town: | Dalwallinu, Dalwallinu, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Malaya, 11 February 1942, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
Kranji War Cemetery Special Memorial C, Plot 4, Row C, Grave 18 Re-interred, Kranji War Cemetery, Kranji, Singapore |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Dalwallinu War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Lance Corporal, WX13515 | |
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24 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Corporal, WX13515, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, WA | |
24 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, WX13515, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion | |
11 Feb 1942: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Corporal, WX13515, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Malaya/Singapore |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Albert Brian Walter ANNETTS was born in Subiaco, Western Australia on 1st September, 1918
His parents were Walter William ANNETTS & May DELAHUNTY
He enlisted in Claremont, Western Australia on 24th May, 1941 with the 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion - he later joined E Company which consisted of reinforcements
Albert went missing in action and was later declared as killed in action when E Company ran into a Japanese ambush at South West Bukit, Timah
He was first buried in a mass grave but later re-interred in the Kranji War Cemetery and his name is memorialised on the Dalwallinu War Memorial in Western Australia & Australian War Memorial - His name is commemorated on the Ballarat Prisoner of War Memorial in Victoria even though he was never taken by the Japanese as a POW