Clyde Elton LANG

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Service Numbers:	245356, NX57695
Enlisted:	16 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/18th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Wellington, New South Wales, 6 August 1922
Home Town:	Orange, Orange Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Natural causes, Brisbane, Queensland, 18 August 1993, aged 71 years
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

16 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, NX57695, Paddington, New South Wales
16 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 245356
17 Jul 1940:	Involvement 245356
7 Dec 1941:	Involvement Private, NX57695, 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
8 Jan 1946:	Discharged Private, NX57695, 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion

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Taken P.O.W. in Singapore on 15 Feb 1942. Changi and Blakang Mati

In later life was Superintendent at Townsville's Stuart Prison and Brisbane's Boggo Road Prison