Anthony (Tony) MCDIARMID

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MCDIARMID, Anthony

Service Number:	NX31697
Enlisted:	12 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Independent Companies
Born:	Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, 29 March 1919
Home Town:	Rowlands Creek, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Died at sea (Montevideo Maru), South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the RABAUL MEMORIAL at Panel 13. , Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Memorials:	Australian Commando Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial

World War 2 Service

12 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private
12 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX31697
1 Jul 1942:	Involvement Private, NX31697, Independent Companies

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He was 23 and the son of Arthur Hallam McDiarmid and Esther McDiarmid, of Altarnun, Cornwall, England.

Montevideo Maru was a Japanese auxiliary ship that was sunk in World War II, resulting in the drowning of many Australian prisoners of war and civilians being transported from Rabaul, in what is considered the worst maritime disaster in Australia's history. Prior to the war the ship operated as a passenger and cargo vessel traveling mainly between Asia and South America.

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