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CORFIELD, Charles Herbert
Personal Details
Service Number: | NX73615 |
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Enlisted: | 3 December 1941, Paddington, New South Wales |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Erskinville, NSW, 18 April 1912 |
Home Town: | Marrickville, Marrickville, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | General Labourer, Truck Driver |
Died: | Cerebral Haemorrhage, Marrickville, NSW, 18 November 1997, aged 85 years |
Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Private, NX73615, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion, Paddington, New South Wales | |
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3 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX73615, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion | |
15 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned POW Changi | |
4 Dec 1945: | Discharged Private, NX73615, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion | |
4 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX73615, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion |
Personal Stories
War Service - WW2
Served in WW2 - NX73615 - Enlisted in CMF in Paddington. N265393 - Enlisted in AIF in Wollongong.
Ex POW - 2/29 Battalion. Returned from Second World War in October 1945, after being interned in Changi Prison, Singapore and working on Burma Railway.
Submitted 18 February 2016 by Ron Langhans