PESCUD, Norman Roy
| Service Number: | WX5249 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bunbury, Western Australia, 11 December 1912 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 11 July 1969, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia Crematorium K, 1/54 |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 26 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5249, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 14 Jul 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5249, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Norman was the sixth of 11 children born to William Henry PESCUD and Grace Elizabeth HANCOCK (9 surviving to adulthood).
Norman and two of his brothers enlisted in WWII. Their father, who had served in WWI, died in 1944 while Norman was overseas as a POW.
Norman 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. Norman was one of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
He married Daphne Belle JOHNSON in Fremantle in 1948 (reg. 283). He died in 1969, aged 56. Daphne died in 2009, aged 85. She did not remarry.