Frederick Charles SMALL

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SMALL, Frederick Charles

Service Number:	SX11433
Enlisted:	25 February 1941
Last Rank:	Staff Sergeant
Last Unit:	Rabaul Task Force
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 8 September 1917
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	St Theresa, South Australia
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Died at sea (Montevideo Maru), South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial

World War 2 Service

25 Feb 1941:	Involvement SX11433
25 Feb 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, SX11433, Rabaul Task Force, Wayville, SA
25 Feb 1941:	Enlisted Staff Sergeant, SX11433, Artillery Staff Sergeant for Coastal Artillery in Support of the 2/22nd Battalion in Rabaul.
25 Feb 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, SX11433
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Philip Quin

Fredrick Charles Small signed up at Fort Largs and joined the Australia AIF as an Artillery Soldier. He married Eileen Ida Heysed. He was deployed with the 2/22 Battalion to Rabaul Papua New Guinea providing Artillery Support to the Battalion. In the hast to avoid being captured by the Japenense Forces landing in Paua New Guinea they boarded the ship called the MV Montivideo Maru. On the 1st July 1942 at 0225 four torpedos were launched by the submarine USS Sturgeon and sunk the Montivideo Maru. Unknowling at the time the ship was full of Australian Prisoners of War, Civilian Internees from New Britain. Its believe 1056 Australian captives died along with 70 Japanese naval personal. It has been classed as the worst Matime disaster for Australia.

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Small; husband of Eileen Ida May Small, of Parkside, South Australia.

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