Jack Livesay DARLINGTON

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DARLINGTON, Jack Livesay

Service Number:	SX3133
Enlisted:	21 May 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3 Field Regiment AMF
Born:	Prospect, South Australia, 9 April 1918
Home Town:	Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk/Public Servant
Died:	Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Burma, 29 July 1943, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Plot A10, Row E, Grave 12.
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Glenelg and District WW1 & WW2 Honour Board

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, SX3133
21 May 1940:	Enlisted Private, SX3133
3 Feb 1941:	Embarked Private, SX3133, 3 Field Regiment AMF
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned

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Biography contributed by Julianne Ryan

Rootsweb ID: I482615 - Born 9 April 1918 in Prospect, South Australia
Born - Jack Livesay DARLINGTON
SA Birth Record 1907 - 1928. Book : 53A Page : 184 District : Ade.

Father Charles Frederick DARLINGTON and Mother Ellen Charlotte BATTERBURY,
living at 2 Laphorne Street, Glenelg, SA.

WWII Service #3133
Private in Australian Army

21/5/1940 enlisted in Glenelg, SA - on enlisting stated he was born in 1918
place of enlisting Adelaide, SA

23/1/1941 entrained with 2/2/ Motor Transport Reserve Company

11/2/1941 embarked for overseas onboard HMT QX 1

11/3/1941 disembarked into Singapore

16/2/1942 Originally detected as MISSING, later noted as taken as Prisoner of War

Prisoner of War in Thai Camp

14/5/1942 detached to Anderson Battalion, "A" Force, in Malaya, notified by Japanese

Last rank as a Driver in 2/2 Reserve Motor Transport Company

29/6/1943 died of dysentry in POW camp
buried in: Alepauk prisoner of war (POW) cemetery, Alepauk, Burma

Exhumed and reburied in:
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Thanbyuzayat, Mon State, Myanmar

His name is commemorated on Panel 80 at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT.

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan. 2/10/2016. Lest we forget.

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