Jack ALDHAM

ALDHAM, Jack

    Service Number: NX53693
    Enlisted: 9 July 1940
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Tempe, New South Wales, Australia , 26 July 1919
    Home Town: Blackheath, Blue Mountains Municipality, New South Wales
    Schooling: Bankstown High School, New South Wales, Australia
    Occupation: Accountant and company director
    Died: Heart Attack, Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia, 1 February 1991, aged 71 years
    Cemetery: Blackheath Cemetery
    Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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    World War 2 Service

    9 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX53693, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
    24 Jul 1942: Wounded
    10 Sep 1943: Imprisoned Changi hospital then Kranji POW camp
    25 Jan 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX53693, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion

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    Biography contributed by Warwick Aldham

    He was injured during the fall of Singapore - shrapnel through his thigh. He was cared for in Changi Hospital then served time in Kranji POW camp on the island of Blakang Mati (now Sentosa)

    Married Phyllis Edna White after returning from Singapore. Had two sons Ronald John and Warwick.

    His father John Henry Aldham was enlisted in WWI and was injured (bullet through his elbow and shrapnel in his leg) on the western front and taken prisoner by the Germans at Soltau.

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