MALLINS, George Frederick
| Service Number: | WX7112 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Birmingham, England, 30 June 1917 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Fairbridge Farm School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 29 January 1980, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Garden of Remembrance, EC section, 24/0184 |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 2 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX7112, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 13 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX7112, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
George Mallins, 11, arrived in a group of 35 bound for Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Western Australia in Dec 1928. His last known address in England was given as The Child Emigration Society, Savoy House, Strand.
He married Ivy Mary SANDERS in 1941 in Perth (reg. 70). Ivy enlisted in the AWAS in 1942.
George 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. Most of the 41 casualties were from George's battalion.
He died in 1980 aged only 62.
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