Henry William MORTIMER

MORTIMER, Henry William

Service Number: NX26393
Enlisted: 24 June 1940
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 2nd/10th Field Ambulance
Born: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 24 January 1900
Home Town: Canterbury, Canterbury, New South Wales
Schooling: Balmain Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Ambulance Officer
Died: Illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 17 February 1945, aged 45 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 25.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Sergeant, NX26393
24 Jun 1940: Involvement NX26393, 2nd/10th Field Ambulance
24 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, NX26393

Sgt Henry William Mortimer

NX26393 Sergeant Henry William Mortimer, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps.

He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POW's that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942.

Sergeant Mortimer, aged 47, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 17 February 1945.

He was the son of Henry Walter and Emily Jane Mortimer, and the husband of Veronica Beatrice Mortimer, of Lakemba, NSW.

He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 25, as he does not have a marked grave, like many in Labuan Cemetery.

He was the father of 6 children that he left behind.

Like a lot of others at the time he enlisted as he could earn more money for his family with military service then he made as an ambulance officer in Sydney, located at Canterbury Hospital.

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