Leslie Maxwell BAUER

BAUER, Leslie Maxwell

    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
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    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 (Army WW2), Private, SX13245
    Date unknown: Involvement

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    Biography

    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.

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