HUNT, Richard Philip
| Service Numbers: | 13092, SX11096 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 May 1921 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Kent Town, South Australia, 16 December 1902 |
| Home Town: | Kent Town, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese, Borneo, 13 February 1945, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 19 May 1921: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, 13092 | |
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| 27 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Private, SX11096, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 27 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 27 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX11096, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Peter Sunners
Information from SA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of SX11096 Private Richard Philip Hunt, 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POW's that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Private Hunt, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 13 February 1945. He was the son of Hezekiah Hunt and Florence Hunt, and the husband of Irene Hunt, of Melbourne, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 23. Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C334692
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