LE FEVRE, Douglas
| Service Number: | WX5933 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Norfolk, England, 21 March 1917 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 28 October 1991, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia Lakes C Set Bronze, Garden 2, Location 63, as LE-FEVRE |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5933, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Mar 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5933, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Douglas was born in Norfolk, England, in 1917 (Epping, March quarter, as LEFEVRE) to single mother, Edith.
He arrived in WA at age 11 and was placed at Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Western Australia. He was one of 160 children who came to Australia aboard Ballarat in 1928.
Douglas married Eileen Alberta JONES in 1940 in Perth (reg. 2259). He enlisted in the WA Wheatbelt town of Cunderdin that same year.
Douglas 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.
He died in Perth in 1991 at age 74.
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