Maurice Richard ABELL

Service Number:	QX22218
Enlisted:	31 July 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Proserpine, Queensland, Australia, 20 October 1919
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	22 April 2003, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Proserpine General Cemetery, Qld NP7-330
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

31 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX22218, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
28 Mar 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX22218, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion

Maurice

Maurice was born on the 20.10.1919 to Thomas Richard & Vivian Mabel Eileen Alice (Ross), in Proserpine.

He resided and enlisted in Proserpine, on the 31.7.1941. He was a POW in Singapore, as part of D FORCE from Changi Prison. Maurice was retrieved from Japan (where he worked in the coal mines) on the 5.10.1945 and discharged on the 28.3.1946.
“He never took his shirt off in front of his family, till in his old age he was assisted at the doctors surgery by a family member. Revealing all the whip scars across his back”
He married Jean Helen Miller & resided in Cannon Valley working as a fisherman until he passed away on the 22.4.2003. NP7- grave330.

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