HOLDMAN, Norman Phillip
| Service Number: | WX7465 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Cottesloe, WA, 10 October 1910 |
| Home Town: | Pickering Brook, Kalamunda, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Transport Worker |
| Died: | Accidental Air Raid by Allies, Thailand, 27 March 1945, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery 1 L 37, Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX7465 | |
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| 6 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Private, WX7465, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, WA | |
| 6 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX7465 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Hugh Henry and Elizabeth Holdman; husband of Grace Ellen Holdman, of Wembley, Western Australia.
Lofty survived the hellish conditions of working on the Burma-Thailand Railway with Williams Force during the monsoons and speedo. Working conditions were horrific, they had little food and medicine and were at the mercy of their spiteful and sadistic Japanese and Korean guards. Whilst at Kanchanaburi he was selected for Japan (probably Awa Maru Party) in 1945. His work party was directed through Bangkok supposedly to sail to Japan. While working at the go-downs, Bangkok wharves ‘Lofty’ was tragically killed in an Allied Air Raid 27 Mar 1945 aged 34 years.
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