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LYONS, Edwin James
Personal Details
Service Number: | VX26083 |
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Enlisted: | 12 June 1940 |
Last Rank: | Driver |
Last Unit: | 8th Divisional Supply Column (AASC) |
Born: | Siddon, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 September 1919 |
Home Town: | Glen Huntly, Glen Eira, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Illness, Japan, 23 June 1945, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: |
Yokohama War Cemetery (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Grave Location: Australian Section, E. A. 12. Roll of Honour: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, VX26083 | |
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12 Jun 1940: | Involvement Driver, VX26083, 8th Divisional Supply Column (AASC), Malaya/Singapore | |
12 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Driver, VX26083, 8th Divisional Supply Column (AASC), Caulfield, Vic, Australia | |
12 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX26083 | |
15 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daniel Bishop
Son of Albert Lewis LYONS & Alice Eva LYONS, of East Malvern, Victoria, Australia.