MAUDE, Jack
| Service Number: | WX13285 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 May 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | CAMBRIDGE, ENG, 2 April 1911 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Fremantle, 18 March 2001, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 21 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX13285, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion | |
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| 20 Mar 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX13285, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
WX13265 Jack Maude
Was sent to Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, WA aged 9 years. Jack had very happy years there and spoke highly of Kingsley Fairbridge.
He enlisted 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion 8th Division - there were total of 21 Fairbridge boys in this Western Australian raised battalion - 10 lost their lives and another one enlisted for Korea - was KIA just a few months into the war.
Jack was recovered from Fukuoka sub Camp No. 24 Sendyu in Japan at the end of the war. This was not far from Nagasaki Atom bomb and Jack would suffer for the remainder of his life from the effects which worsened later in his life. Like many former POWs Jack had many hospital visits to Hollywood Hospital.d
He had worked on the Burma-Thai Railway prior to being shipped to Japan.
Jack was captured in Java about 8 March 1942 having missed the transport ship 'Aquitania' in Fremantle 16 Feb 1942. He was one of about 90 well trained machine gunners who were taken to Java as Singapore was about to fall.
From Java Jack was shipped with work party Java Party No. 4 Williams Force - sent to the Burma end of the Railway.
Jack never married. He held down several gardening and caretaking positions, became a accomplished tennis player. He had many friends from Fairbridge, 2/4th and tennis interests.
Submitted 26 August 2025 by Cheryl Mellor
Biography contributed by Les Westerlund
Jack's English parents were: Charles William (Dr) Maude
(1883–1920) and Edith Alice Worsnop
(1884–1957).
He came out to Western Australia, as a "Fairbridge Kid", and was friends with my g'parents at Fairbridge.
He suffered as a POW in the Japan war.
In later life he stayed at my g'aunties place in N. Frematle to live out his years. My mother had met him, and I may have met him. He is considered part of our Fairbridge Family.
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