John Lewis PALLOT

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PALLOT, John Lewis

Service Number:	WX4461
Enlisted:	13 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Northam, Western Australia, 16 March 1915
Home Town:	Northam, Northam, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Postal employee
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 14 April 1976, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Lance Howard Memorial Gardens, Garden AZ1
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

13 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX4461, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion
3 Jan 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX4461, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion, from Fremantle; disembarked Middle East 2 Feb 1941; to training school in Palestine
27 Jul 1942:	Imprisoned El Alamein, missing in action 27 Jul 1942; officially reported POW 30 Sep 1942; interned various camps
12 Oct 1944:	Embarked embarked from UK to Australia, arriving in Melbourne 17 Nov 1944; entrained to Perth the following day, arriving 27 Nov 1944; spent some weeks in hospital in Perth
15 Jun 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX4461, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin

John was the eldest son of Paul PALLOT and Clara MENZIES. John's father Paul, former postmaster, passed away about two weeks after John enlisted.

John's battalion 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. John was one of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.

He was finally returned home to WA in late 1944. He married Violet FARMER in 1945.

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