Ronald William Leonard (Bill) BROWNBILL

BROWNBILL, Ronald William Leonard

Service Number: NX53156
Enlisted: 24 June 1940, Paddington, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion
Born: Glebe ,Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28 March 1905
Home Town: Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling: Unknown
Occupation: Soap Maker
Died: Dysentry, Tamakan, Thailand, 12 January 1944, aged 38 years
Cemetery: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Plot I, Row E, Grave 17
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, NX53156
24 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, NX53156, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion, Paddington, NSW
24 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX53156, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion
12 Jan 1944: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, NX53156, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion, Changi POW Camp

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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

From the website 230battalion.org.au

Changi Prison and A Force on the Burma Railway

Private BHQ Band

Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Ronald William Leonard BROWNBILL was born in Glebe, Sydney, NSW on 28th March, 1905

His parents were William Joseph BROWNBILL & Eleanor Isabella SHEEL

He enlisted in Paddington in Sydney on 24th June 1940

Ronald was taken as a Prisoner of War by the Japanese and was in Changi Prisoner of War Camp

He died from Illness (Dysentry) on 12th January, 1944 and is buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery - his name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial and the POW Memorial in Ballarat, Victoria

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