Lance Ashby DAWES

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Service Numbers:	S31116, SX11602
Enlisted:	8 August 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Born:	Gawler, South Australia, 27 May 1916
Home Town:	Glenunga, South Australia
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Oxy Electric Welder
Died:	Malaria, Borneo, 13 January 1945, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Gawler Council WW2 Honour Roll, Hackney St Peter's College WW2 Honour Roll, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia

8 Aug 1940:	Involvement S31116
8 Aug 1940:	Enlisted S31116
4 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX11602
4 Mar 1941:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , S31116
13 Jan 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX11602, Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 27 Independant Brigade Group Ordnance Workshops AAOC

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Lance Ashby DAWES was born in Evanston, Gawler, South Australia on 27th May, 1916

His parents were Arthur Gordon DAWES & Ruby Isabel TURNER who married in St Andrews Presbyterian Church in Gawler on 19th June 1915

He was engaged to Miss Elsie JACOBS in 1940

He died from Malaria at the Sandakan No. 1 Camp in Borneo on 13th January, 1945 as a prisoner of war of the Japanese (POW Number 189)

His last rank was Corporal with the 27 Independant Brigade Group Ordnance Workshops (AAOC)

"not just today, but everyday - in silence we remember - so dearly loved"