James Marsden BETTS

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BETTS, James Marsden

Service Number:	NX59898
Enlisted:	22 July 1940, Paddington, NSW
Last Rank:	Staff Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Molong, NSW, 13 November 1914
Home Town:	Orange, Orange Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Overseer Grazing Property
Died:	Illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 12 April 1945, aged 30 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan Memorial - Panel 11. Malaysia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia, Orange "Fallen of Orange" Memorial Banners, Orange Cenotaph, Orange Holy Trinity Anglican Church J M BETTS Memorial Plaque, Orange WW2 Supreme Sacrifice Honour Board, Wagga Wagga Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement NX59898
22 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, NX59898, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion, Paddington, NSW

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William Marsden Betts and Leila Margaret Betts, of Orange, New South Wales.

News is just to hand that Staff Sergeant J. M. Betts, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Betts of Hill Street; Orange, is a prisoner of war in Borneo. It is fifteen months since any news has been received from him, and his family, relatives and friends are all immensely bucked up by the news.

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