MOLLOY, Maurice
| Service Number: | WX8027 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Fremantle, Western Australia, 7 April 1914 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 17 February 1978, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Roman Catholic, Lawn 8/735 |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 13 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX8027 | |
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| 21 Mar 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX8027 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Maurice was the youngest of three children born to Matthew and Bridget. Matthew was a police officer, reaching the rank of Sergeant. The family lived in Fremantle for 20 years before moving to Kalgoorlie, then to Busselton in 1933 (see Bridget's obituary: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/258831597).
Maurice enlisted in Aug 1940. He was captured and held as a POW, and was 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. Maurice was one of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
He married Pamela STONE in 1947 in Perth (reg. 3048) and died in 1978 aged 62.