CROCKER, Donald Love
Service Number: | SX11521 |
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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 |
World War 2 Service
24 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Adelaide, South Australia | |
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1 Mar 1941: | Involvement Private, SX11521, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
1 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (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