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LANG, Clyde Elton
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | 245356, NX57695 |
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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 |
Service History
World War 2 Service
16 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Private, NX57695, Paddington, New South Wales | |
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16 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (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