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Service Number:	WX10711
Enlisted:	15 January 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Beverley, Western Australia, 20 April 1908
Home Town:	Beverley, Beverley, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Thailand, 1 October 1943, aged 35 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Row J, Plot 1, Grave 78,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

15 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX10711
15 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Private, WX10711, Claremont, Western Australia
16 Jan 1941:	Involvement Private, WX10711
23 Sep 1941:	Involvement Private, WX10711, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Middle East / Mediterranean Theatre
18 Feb 1942:	Embarked Private, WX10711, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Batavia
7 Mar 1942:	Imprisoned Australia's Northern Periphery
1 Oct 1943:	Involvement Private, WX10711, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Prisoners of War

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Disembarked Batavia on 18 Feb 1942, reported Missing at Java on 07 Mar 1942 (now POW of Japan)

Died of avitaminosis on 01 Oct 1943 while on the Thai-Burma railway.

Body exhumed 16 Apr 1946 and reinterred in the Kanchanaburi Allied War Cemetery (Row J, Plot 1, Grave 78)