PENN, Lloyd Frederick
| Service Number: | WX9734 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 December 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Geraldton, Western Australia, 30 March 1910 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | labourer |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 26 December 1991, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Midland Cemetery Anglican, M/59B |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Dec 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX9734, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 5 Jul 1941: | Embarked 13 Training Battalion, from Fremantle; arrived in Middle East 25 Jul 1941; marched out to 2nd/32nd Battalion 23 Aug 1941 | |
| 30 Sep 1942: | Imprisoned Middle East / Mediterranean Theatre, reported missing believed POW 22 Jul 1942; officially reported POW 30 Sep 1942; interned various camps Italy as well as Stalag 18A | |
| 18 Jun 1945: | Embarked from UK for Australia; disembarked Sydney 24 Jul 1945; to WA for rehabilitation treatment | |
| 12 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX9734, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Lloyd was the youngest of five children born to Andrew PENN and Maud Hope FLETCHER in Geraldton, WA. His father had served in WWI and all three of his brothers enlisted in WWII.
Lloyd married Clara Elizabeth OLDHAM in 1937 (Swan district, reg. 81). She was known as Elizabeth or Bettie. They lived on Morrison Road in Midland Junction, and had five children.
Lloyd was 35 when he enlisted. It was documented that the first joint of three fingers on his left hand had been amputated at the time of his enlistment.
He was captured during an attack on German positions at Ruin Ridge on 22 Jul 1942. He was a POW on board the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Lloyd was one of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
While interned in various POW camps, he was engaged in road work for 10 hours a day.
Lloyd died on Boxing Day 1991, aged 81.
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