Allan Wesley BAMFORD

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BAMFORD, Allan Wesley

Service Number:	WX8485
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 (Army WW2), Private, WX8485, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, WA

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Biography 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)

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