Harold Lindsay COX

COX, Harold Lindsay

Service Number: TX5868
Enlisted: 22 October 1941
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born: Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia, 4 September 1920
Home Town: Burnie, Burnie, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Smithton, Tasmania, Australia, 6 December 2007, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Mersey Vale Memorial Park Cemetery, Tasmania
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

22 Oct 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX5868, 40th Infantry Battalion
22 Oct 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX5868, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
17 Jan 1942: Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX5868, 40th Infantry Battalion, per Koolama for Timor
9 Jun 1942: Imprisoned 30 April 1942: Reported Missing 9 June 1942: Reported PoW, interred Thai Camp
6 Oct 1945: Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX5868, per Highland Brigade for Melbourne
11 Jun 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX5868, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
11 Jun 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX5868, 40th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown: Involvement Private, TX5868, 40th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Harold was the ninth of ten children of Arthur William Cox (born 1877 in Emu Bay, Tasmania) and Edith Laura Wright (born 1880 in Longford, Tasmania). Arthur, a Farmer,  and Edith married in 1903 in Wynyard, Tasmania.

Harold was working as a Labourer in Smithton Tasmania when he enlisted in the AMF on 22 October 1941. He served with the 2/40 Battalion as a Private (Service No: TX5868) and was in Timor, Java, Burma and Siam. Reported Missing on 30 April 1942, in June that year he was reported a a PoW interred in a Thai Camp. On 13 September 1945, Harold was reported as being alive in Siam, and on 4 October 1945 he was 'recovered from the Japs at Siam' (National Archives Australia). Harold was evacuated to 111 Australian General Hospital, and Discharged in June 1946. Harold was Blind as a result of his internment. His father had died in March that year.

In 1949, Harold was a Trainee in Higinbotham, Hampton, Victoria when he married Eileen May Park (born 1919 in Wodonga, Victoria) - Eileen was a Dressmaker. Harold and Eileen settled in Devonport, Tasmania (Harold was not employed), where Eileen died in 1997 and Harold in 2007. 

 

 

 

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