CALDECOTT, Cecil Leonard
| Service Numbers: | 3476, S213172, SX11596 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 May 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Mount Bryan East, South Australia, 26 May 1899 |
| Home Town: | Prospect (SA), Prospect, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Bryan Public School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Carpenter/Farmer |
| Died: | Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Java, Netherlands East Indies, 29 April 1942, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: |
Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia 5 D 9 |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Lyndoch and District Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 3476, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Medic, Melbourne | |
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| 16 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 3476, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' |
World War 2 Service
| 7 May 1940: | Involvement Private, S213172 | |
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| 7 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S213172 | |
| 7 May 1940: | Enlisted Cheltenham, SA | |
| 2 Mar 1941: | Discharged | |
| 3 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Private, SX11596, Wayville, South Australia | |
| 3 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, SX11596 | |
| 6 Mar 1941: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, SX11596, 4th Motor Transport Company | |
| 29 Apr 1942: | Involvement Sergeant, SX11596, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Prisoners of War |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Wounded 3476, 46th Infantry Battalion |
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World War 2 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John Oswald and Susan Sophia Caldecott; husband of Olive Kathleen Caldecott, of Prospect, South Australia.
Sgt Cecil Leonard Caldecott of 55 Le Hunte Avenue Prospect aged 44, married with three sons. Son of Mr John and the late Mrs Caldecott of 61 Balmoral Road Port Pirie. Educated at Mt Bryan. In civil life was employed at farming and at his trade as a carpenter. Enlisted in March 1941 in 4th Reg M T Coy AIF as Despatch Rider. Sailed for Singapore and was captured and became prisoner of war in Java.
He also fought in the Great World War and was wounded and gassed. His brother Pte Sydney Erle Caldecott died whilst on service in Australia in AIF.
Information supplied from The Personal Pictorial Honor Roll of South Australians who enlisted in the Second World War.
Sgt Caldecott died of illness while a POW on April 29 1942.
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