BARRYMORE, Frederick Markwell
Service Number: | WX9589 |
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Enlisted: | 4 December 1940, Claremont, WA |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
Born: | Peppermint Grove, Western Australia, 2 September 1908 |
Home Town: | Claremont, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Unknown |
Occupation: | Traveller |
Died: | Malaria, Thailand, 21 December 1943, aged 35 years |
Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Row F, Grave 47 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
4 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX9589, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, WA |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Frederick Markwell BARRYMORE was born in Peppermint Grove, Western Australia on 2nd September, 1908
His parents were Frederick William BARRYMORE & Cora Henrietta MARKWELL who married in Queensland on 14th March, 1893
He married Katherine Esme BARRY in Perth, WA in 1941
Frederick died as a Prisoner of War from Malaria on 21st December, 1943 and is buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
His name is memorialised on the POW Memorial in Ballarat, Victoria, the Roll of Honour in Perth & the Australian War Memorial