James Leslie CHALMERS

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Service Number:	NX33364
Enlisted:	21 June 1940
Last Rank:	Signaller
Last Unit:	8th Division Signals
Born:	Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 16 November 1919
Home Town:	Balmain, Leichhardt, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Wire roller
Died:	Illness (POW of Japan), Thailand, 19 August 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. P. 67-72., Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Leichhardt War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Signalman, NX33364
21 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, NX33364, Paddington, New South Wales
21 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX33364
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
19 Aug 1943:	Involvement Signaller, NX33364, 8th Division Signals, Prisoners of War

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