Standish O'Grady (Stan) HALY

HALY, Standish O'Grady

Service Number: WX14830
Enlisted: 3 July 1941
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Toowong, Queensland, Australia, 25 January 1916
Home Town: West Perth, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Station Overseer, Truck Driver & Saddler
Died: Malaria whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Borneo - 12 miles from Sandakan, 15 June 1945, aged 29 years
Cemetery: Labuan War Cemetery
Collective Grave, Plot 16, Row B, Graves 4 - 9
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, WX14830
3 Jul 1941: Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, WX14830, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, Western Australia
3 Jul 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX14830, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
30 Dec 1941: Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, WX14830, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, "C" Company
15 Jun 1945: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, WX14830, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Malaya/Singapore

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Standish O'Grady HALY was born on 25th January, 1916 in Toowong, Queensland

His parents were Arthur HALY and Doris Christabel DE WINTON

He enlisted in Claremont, Western Australia on 3rd July, 1941 with the 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

Standish died of Malaria at Sandala Estate near Sandakan, Borneo on 15th June, 1945 & is buried in Labuan War Cemetery - he was in the Selarang Camp as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese

The inscription on his headstone reads:

"I THANK MY GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU"

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IN MEMORIAM

HALY  Standish O'Grady, WX14830, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion

In proud & loving memory of Stan, dearly loved eldest son of Doris and the late Arthur Haly, died while POW Sandakan, Borneo, June 15, 1945 - dear loving brother of Barbara & Cyril

"I thank my god upon every remembrance of you"

 

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