GILMOUR, James
| Service Number: | WX8623 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 October 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, 2 June 1920 |
| Home Town: | Welshpool, Canning, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nursery man / Gardener |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Perth, Western Australia, 25 February 2003, aged 82 years |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Burial reference: - Lance Howard Memorial Gardens-Garden Bw - Virgo-0012. |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 18 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8623 | |
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| 16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Survived imprisonment by the Japanese Imperial Forces. Repatriated to Australia at the end of the war and discharged. | |
| 13 May 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8623, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Duration of war. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Black
Parents: - Hugh Gilmour and Helen Knox married in Scotland, United Kingdom and migrated to Australia arriving 11th November 1923 at Fremantle, Western Australia, aboard the "Balranald"
Wife: - Leoni Blanche Ellis married 15th December 1945
at St Andrews Church,Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Prisoner of War details: - Private James Gilmour ( WX8623) was captured by Japanese Imperial Forces after the Battle of Singapore. PoW number 8780, ‘D’ Force Thailand, S Battalion, he was detained at the following PoW camps in Singapore: - Selarang Camp Changi; Johore Bahru; Adam Park; Sime Road Camp; Selarang Barracks Changi.
Thailand: - Kanu II , Kanu I River Camp, Tarsau (evacuated by barge with cholera), Konkoita; Kinsaiyok, Tarsau, Chungkai, Tardan, Kachu Mountain Camp. Kachu Mountain was the last camp at which James was when the war ended, in 1945 he returned to Australia via Thailand-Singapore by aircraft; Singapore-Fremantle, prior to discharge.
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