John Cochrane HOOD

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Service Number:	VX32586
Enlisted:	20 June 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	HQ Guard Battalion
Born:	Galston, Scotland, United Kingdom, 18 June 1901
Home Town:	Malvern East, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness, Thailand, 10 November 1943, aged 42 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Plot 1, Row D, Grave 58 , Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lance Corporal, VX32586
20 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Lance Corporal, VX32586, Enlisted at Royal Park, Victoria
20 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX32586, HQ Guard Battalion

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Son of Andrew and Susan Hood; husband of Winifred Hood of Malvern, Victoria

Died while a Japanese Prisoner of War

Headstone inscription reads: His duty fearlessly and nobly done lovingly remembered

Roll of Honour - Malvern, Victoria