HINDLE, Herbert Roy
Service Number: | WX8869 |
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Enlisted: | 25 October 1940 |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
Born: | Pindar, WA, 17 April 1904 |
Home Town: | Palmyra, Melville, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Store Foreman |
Died: | Rock Fall at Copper mine, Sumitomo Besshi Copper Mine, Yamane, Shikoku Island, Japan, 30 September 1944, aged 40 years |
Cemetery: |
Labuan War Cemetery Plot H, Row D, Grave 2 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement WX8869 |
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World War 1 Service
25 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Lance Corporal, WX8869, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, WA |
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World War 2 Service
25 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, WX8869, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of William Lawrence and Bridget Emily HINDLE
Soldier aged 40 years, was killed by a fall of rock at Sumitomo Besshi copper mine at Yamane on Shikoku Island Japan on 30.9.1944. His body was cremated and his ashes were carried as far as Labuan Island.
Records show ‘Died after leg severed by fall of stone. (Japanese records state ‘Contusion of the head’).