WEEKS, Thomas Balantyne
| Service Number: | WX10104 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 December 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Narrogin, Western Australia, 18 April 1917 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Laundry Labourer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 5 June 1981, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 13 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10104 | |
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| 9 Sep 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10104, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion, embarked ex Fremantle for ME per HMAT US12A | |
| 9 Aug 1942: | Imprisoned PoW No: 32006 (El Alamein; Stalag VIII-B/ Stalag 344 near the village of Lamsdorf in Silesia; Ospaedale Militare Caserta; Camp 73 | |
| 10 Oct 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10104, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion, for Melbourne per Orion | |
| 22 Jun 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX10104 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Thomas Balantyne Weeks (Service No:WX10104) was one of four siblings who served in the Army in WWII (three served with 2/28th Infantry Battalion, two were KiA). Private Weeks enlisted on 13 December 1940 and embarked from Fremantle on 9 September 1941 bound for the Middle East with 2/28th Infantry Battalion. On 9 August 1942 Private Weeks was reported MiA and confirmed as a PoW (No:32006) on 4 December 1942. He was interned at Stalag VIII-B (later Stalag 344 near the village of Lansdorf in Silesia), at Camp 73 and Ospaedale Militaire Caserta (he was reported as suffering a fractured leg when captured). Repatriated on 14 September 1944, Private Weeks embarked for Melbourne on board Orion on 10 October 1944 and was Discharged on 22 June 1945.
Born in 1917 in Narrogin WA, Tom (Francis Thomas aka Thomas/Tom) was the eldest of five children (sons) of Thomas Weeks (b1883 in London, England) and Sarah Jane Wilson (b1884 in London, England). Thomas (a Copper Barrel Maker at a Brewery) and Sarah married in 1912 in Surrey, England and by 1913 were living at Williams in WA. Thomas attempted to enlist in the AIF in 1914 but was rejected as 'unfit for military service'. Thomas and Sarah lived in Narrogin, Darkan, Coolgardie and Glen Forest in Mundaring where they raised their family and Thomas was a Railways Employee.
Tom was a Laundry Labourer in Perth in 1940 and following his Service in WWII was in Perth WA in 1945 when he married Anita Joan Abbott (b1922 in Perth WA). Tom and Anita settled in Perth where Tom was a Clerk (Repatriation Department) and Railways Worker. tom died in 1981 and Anita in 2016.
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