GIBSON, Norman Allen
Service Number: | WX10994 |
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Enlisted: | 12 March 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
Born: | Mt Lawley, Western Australia, Australia, 10 August 1919 |
Home Town: | South Perth, South Perth, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Jackeroo |
Died: | Illness, Borneo, 24 June 1945, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: |
Labuan War Cemetery Plot 20, Row E, Grave 6 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, South Perth Wesley College Lych Gate |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX10994 | |
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12 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX10994, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Allen Gibson was wounded in action at Reformatory Road, Ulu Pandan, Singapore and sent to a Field Ambulance with a shrapnel wound to his back. Captured during the fall of Singapore he was sent to the Selarang Camp Changi. Allen died in June 1945 as a prisoner of war on Sandakan-Ranau Track, Borneo, aged 25 years. His brother, 290657 Fying Officer Graham Ian Gibson RAAF, had been killed in battle flying a Hudson bomber in New Britain, 11 February 1942.
Their parents were Frank Norman and Ebba Gibson of Perth, Western Australia.