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CARTER, Victor Gregory
Personal Details
Service Number: | NX31953 |
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Enlisted: | 13 June 1940 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/15th Field Regiment |
Born: | Stewarts Brook, New South Wales, Australia, 9 April 1909 |
Home Town: | Aberdeen, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Slaughterman |
Died: | Cerebral Malaria whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Burma, 5 January 1944, aged 34 years |
Cemetery: |
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Original burial site was Anakan (Anganan) (Aungganuang), Burma on the Burma Railway., Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Thanbyuzayat, Mon State, Myanmar |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Gunner, NX31953 | |
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13 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX31953, 2nd/15th Field Regiment | |
17 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Victor was captured with the Fall of Singapore and became a POW in Changi. He became part of "A" Force which left Changi 14th May 1942. "A" Force was the first of the major workforces that were sent to Burma to work on the railway.Victor died of Cerebral Malaria 5th January 1944. |
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