CANNAM, Jack Gordon Drummond
| Service Numbers: | 345427, VX23510 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/8th Field Company / Squadron RAE |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 9 October 1905 |
| Home Town: | Lavington, Albury Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Died: | Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, 17 February 1982, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 345427 | |
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| 1 Jun 1941: | Imprisoned The Battle for Crete - May 1941, 1 Dec 1941: confirmed PoW (No: 10320) of Germans at Stalag XIIIC | |
| 7 Jun 1948: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX23510, 2nd/8th Field Company / Squadron RAE |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper Jack Gordon Drummond Cannam (Service Nos:345427/VX23510) enlisted in the AIF on 6 June 1940, and was attached to 2/8 Field Coy Engineers RAE on 1 June 1941 when he was captured by the Germans on Crete. Confirmed a PoW (No:103220) on 1 December 1941, he was held at Stalag XIIIC and recovered on 14 May 1945. Sapper Cannam diembarked from the Arundel Castle in Sydney from England on 7 July 1945, and was attached to 2/8 Field Coy Engineers RAE at Discharge on 7 June 1948. Sapper Cannam re-enlisted, serving in the Army until the late 1950s.
Jack was born in Dandaragan, Western Australia in 1899, youngest of five children of James Drummond (1859 in Toodyay, Western Australia) and Ellen (Minnie) Amelia Ougden (b1858 in Perth, Western Australia). James and Minnie were both working in Yere Yere via Dandaragan - James as a Jackeroo and Minnie as a Teacher - when they married in 1880 and settled in Yere Yere, where they raised their family and James was a Farmer. James served for fifty years as a member of the Dandaragan Road Board, and Minnie was church organist for more than fifty years.
Jack worked as a Farm Hand in Yere Yere, and was a Farmer at Dalguring via Dandaragan in 1921 when he married Kathleen Alexandra Fox (b1902 in Sydney, New South Wales). Jack and Kathleen lived in Dalguring until the late 1920s, when they moved to Albury, New South Wales - Jack added 'Cannam' as his surname, and was an Actor when he enlisted in the AIF in 1940. Following his return to Australia, Jack and Kathleen divorced in 1946 - Jack remained in Albury NSW and returned briefly to acting before re enlisting in the Army until the late 1950s, when he moved to England. Jack died in England in 1982.