George John POLAIN MID

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POLAIN, George John

Service Numbers:	7009, NX70175
Enlisted:	2 August 1940
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Forrest Gate, Essex, England , 4 August 1897
Home Town:	St Kilda East, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	St Johns Trinity College, Melbourne University, and Moore College Sydney
Occupation:	Divinity student
Died:	Sydney, NSW, Australia, 27 July 1974, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, New South Wales Garden of Remembrance (Rookwood Necropolis)

World War 1 Service

28 Feb 1918:	Involvement Private, 7009, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
28 Feb 1918:	Embarked Private, 7009, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne

World War 2 Service

2 Aug 1940:	Involvement Captain, NX70175, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, 26 Mar 1946
2 Aug 1940:	Enlisted
2 Aug 1940:	Enlisted NX70175

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Extracted from Link on left of page - The Rant Foundry

The officiating minister was former army chaplain George Polain, who was a POW alongside Dowsett in Shimo Songkurai and would later go on to give evidence against the Japanese war crimes in the labour camps. [© Dowsett Memorial Library]

Reverend Polain's son John George Polain served as a Flight Lieutenant in WW2

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