Jack Leonard YEATES

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YEATES, Jack Leonard

Service Number:	WX9003
Enlisted:	25 October 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 27 February 1905
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Natural causes, Western Australia, 11 October 1986, aged 81 years
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia MC Section (Garden of Remembrance); Section 11; Grave ref. 0059
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Brighton Glenelg District WW2 Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

25 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Private, WX9003, Claremont, Western Australia
25 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX9003
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
25 Nov 1946:	Discharged Private, WX9003, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

War Experience

Jack was shell shocked at Ulu Pandan 12/2/1942. Two toes on right foot were amputated in 1944 due to tropical ulcers.

Singapore:
Selarang Camp and Barracks Changi, Thompson Road (Caldecot Hill Estate Camp), Changi Gaol Camp, Kranji Camp Woodlands.
POW#: 1/ 12405
Return Details 1945: Singapore-Labuan, 2/ 1st H.M. Australian Hospital Ship Manunda, Labuan-Morotai by aircraft, Morotai-Melbourne-Perth by aircraft.

The February 1974 edition of ‘Barb Wire & Bamboo’ POW Magazine reported Hack was in Hollywood Hospital.

Sources: http://2nd4thmgb.com.au/soldier/wx9003/

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