Alvo Benjamin (Ben) STEWART

STEWART, Alvo Benjamin

Service Number: QX19998
Enlisted: 30 June 1941, Brisbane, Queensland
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/3rd Ordnance Stores Company
Born: Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, 5 July 1913
Home Town: Ipswich, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Truck driver
Died: Died of Illness (POW of Japan - beri beri), Borneo, 4 February 1945, aged 31 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Panel 28. , Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia, Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

30 Jun 1941: Enlisted Private, QX19998, Brisbane, Queensland
30 Jun 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX19998
1 Jul 1941: Involvement Private, QX19998
16 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
4 Feb 1945: Involvement Private, QX19998, 2nd/3rd Ordnance Stores Company, Prisoners of War

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Biography contributed by Kay Danes

Place of actual death was at Mandorin, a tributary of Labuk. He was marching 60 miles from Sandakan and a marker is on the track where he fell.

"...QX19998 Private Alvo Benjamin Stewart, 2/3rd Ordnance Store Company, Australian Army Ordnance 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. Private Stewart, aged 31, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 4 February 1945. He was the husband of Ethel Catherine Stewart, of Valley, Qld. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 28..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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