SIMMONS, Patrick Joseph
| Service Number: | WX6900 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Infantry Training Battalions |
| Born: | Bunbury, Western Australia, 20 July 1912 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 24 January 2001, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 30 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX6900, Infantry Training Battalions | |
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| 15 Aug 1940: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
| 3 Jan 1941: | Embarked from Fremantle; disembarked Middle East on 2 Feb 1941 | |
| 3 Aug 1941: | Wounded 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion, gun shot wound left thigh; evacuated to 4 Australian General Hospital 4 Aug 1941; evacuated to 64 British General Hospital 6 Aug 1941; evacuated to 3 British General Hospital 11 Aug 1941; discharged 11 Sep 1941; rejoined unit 4 Oct 1941 | |
| 27 Jul 1942: | Imprisoned El Alamein, missing in action; officially reported POW 20 Nov 1942; interned Camp 57 from 21 Nov 1942 then Camp 106 from 10 Apr 1943 | |
| 13 Oct 1944: | Embarked from UK; disembarked in Melbourne, Australia on 17 Nov 1944; by train to Perth 18 Nov 1944, arriving 22 Nov 1944 | |
| 24 Jul 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX6900, Infantry Training Battalions |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Patrick, known as Pat or Paddy, was the youngest of 9 children born to Charles and Ellen SIMMONS of South Bunbury. His father was a printer at the South West Times newspaper.
Pat's eldest brothers John and William served in WWI and brothers William and Harry enlisted in WWII, Harry serving in the 10th Light Horse.
Pat was captured at El Alamein. He 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. Pat was one of 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
No marriage found. Pat died at age 88 on 24 Jan 2001 in Perth.
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