Wesley Edgar HINGSTON

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HINGSTON, Wesley Edgar

Service Number:	TX3860
Enlisted:	15 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	White Hills, Tasmania, Australia, 7 September 1919
Home Town:	White Hills, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	St Leonards, Tasmania, Australia, 1 May 1996, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania The Launceston Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance

World War 2 Service

15 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3860, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
8 Dec 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3860, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, embarked Darwin for Koepang, Timor
24 Apr 1942:	Imprisoned 15 June 1942: Confirmed PoW (No: 783) of the Japanese; at Tanjong Pagar PoW Camp, Java, Netherlands East Indies
24 Sep 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3860, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, embarked Singapore for Sydney
5 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3860, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Youngest of three siblings who served in WWII, Private Wesley Edgar Hingston (Service No:TX3860) enlisted in the AIF on 15 July 1940, and was attached to 2/40 Infantry Battalion on 8 December 1941 when he embarked with his Unit from Darwin for Koepang, Timor. Reported as Missing on 24 April 1942, Private Hingston was confirmed as a PoW (No:783) of the Japanese at Tanjong Pagar PoW Camp in Java. Recovered from the Japanese on 12 September 1945, Private Hingston embarked from Singapore for Sydney on 24 September 1945, and was hospitalised before Discharge on 5 December 1945.

Wesley was born at Whie Hills, Tasmania in 1919, youngest of 9 children of Hubert William Henry Hingston (b1878 in Westbury, Tasmania) and Marion Blanche Trethewie (b1881 at White Hills, Tasmania). Hubert was a Farmer at White Hills in 1902 when he and Marion married in Launceston, and settled at White Hills where they raised their family and Hubert was a Farmer.

Wesley was working in White Hills as a Farm Labourer when he enlisted in the AIF in 1940. Following his Discharge, he married Gwenneth (Gwen) Jean Watson (b1932 in Launceston, Tasmania) in 1951 in Launceston. Wesley and Gwen settled in St Leonards, where they raised their family and Wesley was a Labourer. Wesley died in 1996 and Gwen in 2019.

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