MOIR, Ernest Edward
| Service Number: | WX8815 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 October 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Ravensthorpe, Western Australia, 22 May 1920 |
| Home Town: | Ravensthorpe, Ravensthorpe, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | labourer |
| Died: | Kambalda, Western Australia, 27 January 2011, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8815 | |
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| 30 Sep 1942: | Imprisoned Middle East / Mediterranean Theatre, missing in action from 27 Jul 1942; interned Camp 29 then Camp 82; returned to Camp 29, then moved to Camp 106 before transfer to Stalag XIA; deplaned UK in May 1945; returned to Australia Jul 1945 | |
| 18 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8815 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Ernest was the second of at least five children born to Charles and Blanche of Ravensthorpe WA. His birth was registered as Edward Ernest (reg. 18/1920).
Charles and Blanche's three eldest sons served in WWII, with another son serving on HMAS Arunta in Korea.
Ernest enlisted in Oct 1940 in Esperance, on the same day as his older brother Charles. He arrived in the Middle East in Jul 1941. He was captured and held as a POW for almost three years.
Ernest 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. Ernest was one of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
He was returned to Australia in Jul 1945 and married divorcee Anne Eva WHITEHOUSE nee SCHWARZE that same year in Perth (reg. 2063). He died in 2011, late of Kambalda.
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