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TOPP, Norman Sydney James
Personal Details
Service Number: | VX38410 |
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Enlisted: | 12 August 1940, Royal Park, Vic. |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
Born: | Mildura, Vic., 10 February 1920 |
Home Town: | Red Cliffs, Mildura Shire, Victoria |
Schooling: | Mildura High School |
Occupation: | Baker |
Died: | POW died of Illness, Thailand, 16 July 1943, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Coll. grave 1. Q. 2-78 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Mildura High School WW2 Honour Roll |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, VX38410 | |
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12 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX38410, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Royal Park, Vic. |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Thomas James Topp and Constance Halveston Topp, of Northcote, Victoria
"FOREVER WE SHALL REMEMBER"
Reported missing in action in Java 29 April 1942 - Prisoner of War 28 Juy 1943
Died of Avitaminosis whiles Prisoner of War