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PROCTER, Harold Edward
Personal Details
Service Number: | WX6172 |
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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 |
Service History
World War 2 Service
13 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX6172, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion | |
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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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