Edward Walter BOCK

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Service Number:	VX56722
Enlisted:	12 August 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion
Born:	Essendon, Victoria, Australia, 28 December 1919
Home Town:	Essendon, Moonee Valley, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Storeman
Died:	Septicaemia, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Burma (Myanmar), 9 October 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Burial reference: - Plot A7, Row C, Grave 6. Personal Inscription: - "FOR DUTY NOBLY DONE HE WILL EVER BE REMEMBERED".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX56722
12 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX56722, 2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion
7 Mar 1943:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Reported missing in action, Java, believed to be a prisoner of war. Died as a POW.

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Parents: - Adolph Bock and Mary Emma Maskell,(married 1913 in Victoria) of Essendon, Victoria, Australia.