Allen Godfrey JONES

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JONES, Allen Godfrey

Service Number:	VX46238
Enlisted:	23 June 1940, Caulfield, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Anti Tank aka Tank Attack Regiment
Born:	Porepunkah, Victoria, 4 August 1919
Home Town:	Holbrook, Greater Hume Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Natural causes, West Heidelberg, Victoria, 21 September 1959, aged 40 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

23 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX46238, Caulfield, Victoria
15 Jul 1940:	Involvement Private, VX46238
15 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX46238
4 Apr 1942:	Imprisoned
15 Mar 1946:	Discharged Gunner, VX46238, 2nd/4th Anti Tank aka Tank Attack Regiment
15 Mar 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX46238

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Biography

"...VX46238 Gunner Allen Godfrey Jones, 4 Anti Tank Regiment, taken on his return to Australia in 1946. Jones was captured on 4 April 1942, and held prisoner, first at the Changi Prisoner of War (POW) camp then at the Great World Camp, River Valley Road Camp, Fukuoka number 1 and number 17. He was released on 9 October 1945 and discharged on 15 March 1946, returning to his home town of Holbrook, NSW. Jones passed away in 1959 aged 40." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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