WARNER, Allan Keith
Service Number: | VX30831 |
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Enlisted: | 7 June 1940, Royal Park, Vic. |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Dimboola, Vic., 29 October 1914 |
Home Town: | Dimboola, Hindmarsh, Victoria |
Schooling: | Dimboola and Woraigworm Schools |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Illness, Ambon Island, Netherlands East Indies, 6 July 1944, aged 29 years |
Cemetery: |
Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Dimboola Memorial Secondary College Roll of Honor WW2, Gerang & District Honour Roll WW2 |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, VX30831 | |
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7 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX30831, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Royal Park, Vic. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Thomas and Eleanor Henrietta Louisa Warner; husband of Joyce Victoria May Warner, of Dimboola, Victoria, Australia.
Allan was born in Dimboola, and enlisted in June 1940 and was taken prisoner early in 1942. He received his education at Dimboola and Woraigworm schools and was well known and highly respected throught the district. Beside his mother he is survived by the following brothers and sisters - Charles, Edward, Corinne, Lloyd and Gordon. He also leaves a sorrowing wife nee Joyce Whitton.