Donald Love CROCKER

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Service Number:	SX11521
Enlisted:	24 February 1941, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2)
Born:	Payneham, South Australia, 26 December 1904
Home Town:	Glenside, Burnside, South Australia
Schooling:	Adelaide
Occupation:	Plasterer's Improver
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Thailand, 9 August 1943, aged 38 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Joint grave 1. P. 31-32., Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, City of Kensington & Norwood Honour Roll World War II Book and Case

24 Feb 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide, South Australia
1 Mar 1941:	Involvement Private, SX11521, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2)
1 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX11521, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2)
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Donald Love CROCKER was born on 26th December, 1904 at Payneham, South Australia

His parents were Thomas Sheldon CROCKER and Georgina Cowan McLEOD - his father died in a railway accident in 1908

He married Elsie Constance CLEVELAND in South Australia in 1926

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial and the Prisoner of War Memorial in Ballarat, Victoria

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His son Norman Love CROCKER (SN TX 16356 & T102992) also served in WW2 and was discharged in 1946