SADLER, Albert Mark
| Service Number: | WX11994 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 April 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Young, New South Wales, Australia , 6 July 1909 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 12 November 1992, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Mullewa District Road Board Roll of Honour WW2 |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX11994 | |
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| 9 Sep 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, Fremantle; disembarked in the Middle East on 23 Sep 1941 (acting L/Cpl, training battalion; reverted to Private 24 Sep 1941) | |
| 30 Dec 1941: | Transferred Private, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
| 27 Jul 1942: | Imprisoned Siege of Tobruk, officially reported POW 28 Oct 1942; initally held at Benghazi, then to Camp 51 (Altamura), 57 (Grupigano) and 106 (Vettigne); escaped 12 Sep 1943, arriving in Switzerland 28 Oct 1943 | |
| 13 Oct 1944: | Embarked UK; recovered POW, via Switzerland and Italy; disembarked Melbourne, Australia on 17 Nov 1944; by train to Western Australia, arriving in Perth 22 Nov 1944 | |
| 5 Apr 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX11994 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Albert was one of nine children of William and Sarah SADLER. All four of his brothers enlisted; his brother Thomas was also in the 2nd/28th Batallion. Eldest brother Horace was killed in action in Germany in 1945, and younger brother Robert was also a POW.
Albert was captured at Ruin Ridge at 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. Albert was one of 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
He married Helen Blanche LEE in 1951 in Perth and died in 1992 at age 83.
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