James Edward (Jimmy) PILBEAM

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PILBEAM, James Edward

Service Number:	NX71764
Enlisted:	24 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Motor Transport Company
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales Australia , 3 October 1915
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Storeman
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 16 November 1974, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW The New South Wales Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

24 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX71764
30 Jul 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX71764, 3rd Motor Transport Company, embarked Melbourne for Singapore
5 Mar 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Driver, NX71764, 3rd Motor Transport Company, embarked Singapore for Java
27 Apr 1942:	Imprisoned Missing Conformed Pow of Japanese (Pow No:5125) held at Aconex Thai PoW Camp
6 Nov 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Driver, NX71764, 3rd Motor Transport Company, embarked Singapore for Sydney
25 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX71764

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private James Edward Pilbeam (Service No: NX71764) enlisted in the AIF on 24 March 1941 - Driver - and was attached to 3rd Motor Transport Coy on 30 July 1941 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Singapore. On 5 March 1942 Private Pilbeam embarked from Singapore for Java, and was Reported Missing on 27 April 1942 - confirmed on 24 November 1943 as a PoW (PoW No:5125) held by the Japanese at Aconex Thai PoW Camp. On 6 November 1945, Private Pilbeam embarked from Singapore for Sydney, and was attached to 3rd Motor Transport Coy at Discharge on 25 January 1946. Brother Sidney also served in the Army in WWII.

Born in Sydney, NSW in1915, Jimmy was the eldest of two children of John Patrick Pilbeam (b1888 in Sydney, NSW) and Francis (Queenie) Griffiths (b1896 in Sydney, NSW). John (a Driver) and Queenie (a Laundress) married in 1915 in Sydney, where they settled and raised their family and John worked as a Driver.

Jimmy worked as a Labourer in Sydney where, in 1936, he married Iris Maling Bramble (b1917 in Sydney, NSW) - iris was working in Sydney as a Packer. Jimmy and iris settled in Sydney, where he was a Storeman in 1941 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, Jimmy and Iris lived in Sydney, where they raised their family and Jimmy worked as a Storeman and, from the early 1960s, as a Waterside Worker. Jimmy died in 1974 and Iris in 2010.

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