Eric Richard CROSSMAN

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Service Number:	NX56452
Enlisted:	5 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Field Ambulance
Born:	Bexley, New South Wales, 12 December 1913
Home Town:	Hurstville, Kogarah, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Salesman
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Borneo, 4 June 1945, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave - Panel 26, Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia

5 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, NX56452, Liverpool, New South Wales
5 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX56452
4 Jun 1945:	Involvement Private, NX56452, 2nd/10th Field Ambulance , Prisoners of War

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Son of Richard Henry and Frances Crossman; husband of Hilda Annie Isobel Phyllis Crossman of Katomba, New South Wales

7 July 1933 - Enlisted in the Militia. Service number 260299

10 August 1938 - Discharged from Militia