BENDALL, Bertram Alfred
| Service Number: | WX17864 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | DONNYBROOK, WA, 13 November 1914 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Illness, Borneo, 12 February 1945, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Donnybrook War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX17864 | |
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| 3 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX17864, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
WX17864 BENDALL, Bertram ‘Bert’ Alfred POW, died Sandakan 12 February 1945 of cardiac beri beri aged 30 years.
Bert’s parents married England in 1908 after which they sailed to Australia, eventually settling to farm at Donnybrook where they grew apples and other fruits.
Bert was the second of three children, he had an older brother Will and younger sister Margery. The children would have attended school at Donnybrook.
When Bert enlisted 3 December 1941 he joined 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion reinforcements – sailing 6 weeks later on ‘Aquitania’ for Singapore on 16 January, 1942. Bert had spent the previous 12 months with 15th Machine Gun Brigade Militia.
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