Neal Broughton Gray BYRNE

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BYRNE, Neal Broughton Gray

Service Number:	NX4410
Enlisted:	6 May 1941, Paddington
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/30th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia, 15 January 1908
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk / Salesman
Died:	Illness while a POW of the Japanese, Borneo, 12 January 1945, aged 36 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

6 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX4410, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion, Paddington
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Neal Broughton Gray BYRNE was born in Drummoyne, NSW on 15th January, 1908

His parents were Richard BYRNE & Victoria Beatrice Caroline Augusta GRAY who married in Sydney in 1895

He married Marjorie Hazel GOLDING on 30th September, 1936 in St James Church, King St, Sydney

He enlisted in Paddington, Sydney on 6th May, 1941 as a Private with the 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion

He was taken prisoner of war on 16th February, 1942 and died of Illness in Borneo on 12th January, 1945 - no known grave

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the Labuan War Memorial

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