TREDREA, Jonathon
| Service Number: | SX18853 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 September 1942, Wayville, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 2 |
| Last Unit: | Z Special Unit |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 15 May 1920 |
| Home Town: | Kent Town, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 17 July 2018, aged 98 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 23 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Private, SX18853, Wayville, South Australia | |
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| 23 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, SX18853 | |
| 24 Sep 1942: | Involvement Private, SX18853 | |
| 1 Mar 1945: | Honoured Military Medal, "fearless and gifted leader Central Borneo, March 1945" | |
| 22 Mar 1946: | Discharged Warrant Officer Class 2, SX18853, Z Special Unit | |
| 22 Mar 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, SX18853 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"Jack Tredrea was just 24 years old when he parachuted into Borneo in March 1945, armed with only a few maps, some guns and grenades, and a cyanide pill to swallow in case he was captured.“You didn’t know where you were going to finish up,” he said. “But it all worked out naturally for you, and you just fitted yourself in, and away you went.”
Tredrea, who turns 98 in May, was a Z Special Unit operative during the Second World War. As part of Operation Semut 1, he parachuted into the remote Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak without knowing who, or what, he would find, and recruited a guerrilla force of about 30 Dayaks, travelling with them for more than six months through dense jungle terrain, from the highlands to the east, as they cleared out the Japanese..." - READ MORE LINK (www.awm.gov.au)
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