Harold Edward PROCTER

PROCTER, Harold Edward

Service Number: WX6172
Enlisted: 13 July 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Lancashire, England, 12 August 1904
Home Town: Denmark, Denmark, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Farm Labourer
Died: Lung Cancer, Adelaide, South Australia, 18 July 1977, aged 72 years
Cemetery: Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

13 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX6172, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
21 Jul 1941: Embarked Embarked Duntroon to Adelaide for 3 months training at Woodside Training Camp, then travelled up to Darwin NT.
30 Dec 1941: Embarked Embarked for Singapore: Disembarked in Singapore: 26/01/1942
12 Feb 1942: Wounded Wounded in Action: Hill 200, Ulu Pandan, admitted to field ambulance with shrapnel wound to his back and left arm. Admitted to 2/13th Australian General Hospital on 16/02/1942 and discharged to unit on 21/02/1942
16 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Reported Missing:16/02/1942. Reported Japanese POW:27/05/1943. Singapore POW Camps:Feb 1941-May 1943. Selarang Camp Changi-22/02/1942-04/04/1942. Johore Bahru-05/04/1942-30/04/1942. Adam Park-04/04/1942,30/04/1942. A.G.H. Roberts Barracks Changi- 16/02/1942–21/02/1942, July-Sept 1942. Selarang Barracks Changi
16 May 1943: Imprisoned Boat to Japan as part of J Force: Wales Maru Party
7 Jun 1943: Imprisoned Japanese Camps:June 1943-Sept 1945. Kobe (factory and dock work) -June 1943-08/05/1945. Kawasaki Camp; Maruyama Park - 08/05/1945-12/05/1945. Fukuoka sub-Camp No .26; Usui. -12/05/1945-17/09/1945. Recovered at Fukuoka
4 Oct 1945: Embarked Embarked in Manila, 'HMS Speaker'. Disembarked, Sydney: 15/10/1945. Embarked in Sydney, 'Dominion Monarch' 18/10/1945. Disembarked Fremantle WA 23/10/1945
30 Nov 1945: Wounded Admitted to Hospital: Repatriation Hospital, Daw Park SA
19 Jun 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX6172, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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