MORRIS, Clarence George
| Service Number: | WX5575 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 December 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tambellup, Western Australia, 25 September 1919 |
| Home Town: | Tambellup, Broomehill-Tambellup, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Oxy worker |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 28 September 1986, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Lawn 2, GG/68 |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 11 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5575, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 30 Sep 1942: | Imprisoned El Alamein, missing in action from 27 Jul 1942; interned Camps 57, 82 and 106; returned to Australia via UK Nov 1944 | |
| 10 May 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5575, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Clarence was the fifth of eight children born to Joseph and Elsie. All four of his brothers served in WWII. His father Joseph also enlisted and was part of the Australian Home Guard (Volunteer Defence Corps).
Clarence enlisted in Dec 1940. He was promoted to Acting Corporal and then Acting Sergeant as part of the Training Battalion, reverting to Private on joining the 2/28th Battalion.
His battalion was captured at Ruin Ridge, El Alamein, in Jul 1942. Clarence was a POW on board the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. He was one of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
Clarence was returned to Australia in Nov 1944. He described some of his experiences as a POW in an interview with the local newspaper, the Albany Advertiser in Dec 1944. See https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/70451919.
Clarence married Dorothy Violet DESCHAMPS in Perth in 1945 (reg. 2137). He died in 1986 aged 67.