SCADDEN, Laurence Keith
| Service Number: | SX13704 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 July 1941, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kaniva, Victoria, Australia, 27 November 1920 |
| Home Town: | Houghton, Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 16 September 1976, aged 55 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Houghton War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Jul 1941: | Involvement Private, SX13704 | |
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| 15 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 15 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX13704, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion | |
| 2 Nov 1941: | Embarked 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion, disembarked in the Middle East on 24 Nov 1941 | |
| 10 Jul 1942: | Imprisoned Siege of Tobruk, reported missing in action; officially reported POW Jan 1943; interned Camps 66 and 57; transferred from Italy to Germany, interned Stalag 18A | |
| 28 May 1945: | Embarked arrived in the UK from Western Europe as recovered POW | |
| 4 Jul 1945: | Embarked from UK; disembarked at Sydney, Australia 8 Aug 1945; transferred to hospital | |
| 27 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX13704, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion | |
| 27 Sep 1945: | Discharged | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Laurence was the second-youngest of nine children born to Reuben and Clara SCADDEN of Houghton, South Australia. He enlisted at age 20 in 1939. One of his older brothers, Gerald, also enlisted (SX18081).
Laurence was captured at Ruin Ridge at Alamein. He was a POW on board the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Laurence was one of 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
He married Rosalind Mary ALLCHURCH on 1 December 1951 at Tea Tree Gully Baptist Church in South Australia and died on 16 September 1976 at age 55. Rosalind did not remarry and died in 2004 at age 74.
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