BAMFORD, Allan Wesley
Service Number: | WX8485 |
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Enlisted: | 18 October 1940, Claremont, WA |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
Born: | Maylands, WA, 6 July 1913 |
Home Town: | Mount Hawthorn, Vincent, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Perth Modern School |
Occupation: | Accountant / Clerk |
Died: | Perth, WA, 9 April 1977, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Ec Section-Garden 14-0067 |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Western Australia Garden of Remembrance |
World War 2 Service
18 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX8485, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, WA |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Charles Edwin and Daisy Florence BAMFORD of 54 Cooper Street, Mount Hawthorne, WA
Husband of Marie Yvette BAMFORD, West Perth, WA
All had been working on the Siam railway when he developed tropical ulcers on his leg which were neglected, necessitating the removal of the leg at Khonkan Hospital, 55km (evacuated from 105km Camp Aungganaung 19.11.1943 with tropical ulcer. Right leg amputated middle thigh on 22.11.1943)