DORIZZI, Thomas Henry
| Service Number: | WX12884 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 May 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 24 February 1914 |
| Home Town: | Toodyay, Toodyay, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Truck Driver |
| Died: | Beriberi while a POW, Ranau No. 1 Camp, Borneo, 11 March 1945, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia |
World War 2 Service
| 14 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX12884, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion | |
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| 15 Feb 1942: | Involvement Private, WX12884, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Prisoners of War |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Johnson
Tom Dorizzi was wounded in action at Bouna Vista on 15.2.1942. Admitted to 2/13th Australian General Hospital with a shrapnel wound to his right leg on 15.2.1942. Discharged to unit on 23.2.1942.
Tom Dorrizi was eldest of the Dorrizi boys from Toodyay. He was the last to enlist AIF 14 May 1941, later joining 2/4th’s ‘A’ Coy, No. 6 Platoon with Gordon, both were Drivers.
He was married to Harriett Ellen Maude (Nellie) Smith, his brother in law Jack Baker WX9367 was married to sister of Harriett, Sylvia (Joyce) Smith. Jack was one of Tom’s good mates.
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