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MCPHAIL, Alan Ross
Personal Details
Service Number: | VX31956 |
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Enlisted: | 19 June 1940 |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE |
Born: | South Yarra, Victoria, 10 June 1920 |
Home Town: | Kerang, Gannawarra, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Thailand, 15 June 1943, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Plot A13, Row B, Grave 10, Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Thanbyuzayat, Mon State, Myanmar |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Melbourne Cricket Club WW2 Honour Roll |
Service History
World War 2 Service
19 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Private, VX31956, Royal Park, Victoria | |
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19 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX31956 | |
15 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Died of illness while a Prisoner of War with the Japanese | |
15 Jun 1943: | Involvement Sapper, VX31956, 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Prisoners of War |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Angus and Alice Maud McPhail of Kerang, Victoria, Australia