Wilfred James DELLAR

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DELLAR, Wilfred James

Service Number:	VX55218
Enlisted:	7 May 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Motor Transport Company
Born:	Rainbow, Victoria, Australia, 24 February 1905
Home Town:	Danyo, Mildura Shire, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Heart Failure, Detpa, Victoria, Australia, 5 January 1949, aged 43 years
Cemetery:	Dimboola Cemetery, Dimboola, Victoria
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

7 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX55218
11 Sep 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Driver, VX55218, embarked Sydney for Singapore
31 Mar 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, PoW No: 34974 Recovered from Japanese in Thailand
15 Oct 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Driver, VX55218, 4th Motor Transport Company, embarked Singapore for Melbourne on board the Moreton Bay
13 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX55218

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Driver Wilfred James Dellar (Service No:VX55218) enlisted in the Army on 30 April 1941 after serving with 26th Machine Gun Regiment. Driver Dellar embarked from Sydney for Singapore with 4 Reserve Motor Transport Coy on 11 September 1941. Reported Missing on 31 March 1942, Driver Dellar was confirmed a Japanese PoW (PoW No:34974) on 3 November 1943 and was recovered in Thailand in October 1945. Embarking from Singapore for Melbourne on 15 October 1945, Driver Dellar was Discharged on 13 December 1945.

Wilfred was born in Rainbow, Victoria in 1905, eldest of nine children of Richard James Dellar (b1865 in Bochara, Victoria) and Marion Esther Johns (b1883 in Warracknabeal, Victoria). Richard was a Farmer at Kurnbrunin nr Rainbow when he and Marion married in Jeparit in 1904. Richard and Marion lived in Kurnbrunin and Danyo where they raised their family and Richard was a Farmer until his death in 1935.

Wilfred worked as a Farm Labourer and Farmer at Danyo before his enlistment in the AIF. Following his Discharge he returned to the region and in 1949 'collapsed and died while loading wheat at the Detpa railway station ... Only the day before his death he received information that he been allotted a soldiers' settlement block in the Rainbow district' (Trove; 1949).

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