Coming Soon.
BAUER, Leslie Maxwell
Personal Details
Service Number: | SX13245 |
---|---|
Enlisted: | 14 June 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park |
Born: | Port Pirie, South Australia, 27 March 1920 |
Home Town: | Port Pirie, Port Pirie City and Dists, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Thailand, 14 July 1943, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Collective grave 10, Row B, Grave 13-14 |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, City of Port Pirie WW2 Memorial Gates, Port Pirie St Peters Congregation Honour Roll WW2 |
Service History
World War 2 Service
14 Jun 1941: | Involvement Private, SX13245, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park | |
---|---|---|
14 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Wayville, SA | |
14 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX13245 | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
Personal Stories
Help us honour Leslie Maxwell Bauer's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography
Australian Army Service Corps, 8 Division Ammunition Sub Park
Rank - Private
Son of Walter George and Lillian Mary Bauer, of Port Pirie, South Australia
Taken POW at singapore in February 1942. Left Selerang Barracks for Banpong, Siam on 18 May 1943. Worked on Thai-Burma Railway at Hell Fire Pass. Died at Kanyu on 14 July 1943.