Stanley Ernest AMBROSE-PEARCE

AMBROSE-PEARCE, Stanley Ernest

Service Number: SX11036
Enlisted: 21 January 1941
Last Rank: Driver
Last Unit: General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2)
Born: Prospect, South Australia, 19 August 1920
Home Town: Prospect, Prospect, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Apprentice Blacksmith
Died: Natural Causes, Adelaide, South Australia., 7 September 1988, aged 68 years
Cemetery: Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia
Clearview, Port Adelaide Enfield City, South Australia. Plot: Eastern Niche Wall No 2 - LA-LU 32-1 MEMORIAL ID: 118682430
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, South Australian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

21 Jan 1941: Involvement Driver, SX11036
21 Jan 1941: Enlisted Driver, SX11036, Recruit Reception and General Details Depot (S.A.), Enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia. Reported for duty at R.R.D.
21 Jan 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX11036
21 Jan 1941: Enlisted Adelaide, SA
23 Jan 1941: Transferred Driver, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Taken on strength from R.R.D to new unit in 4 M.D South Australia.
23 Jan 1941: Embarked Driver, SX11036, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Entrained 4 M.D. for 3 M.D. with Unit.
1 Feb 1941: Embarked Driver, SX11036, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Entrained 3 M.D for 2 M.D. for Embarkation overseas.
2 Feb 1941: Embarked Driver, SX11036, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Embarked with unit on Ship H.M.T QX1. - Destination Singapore.
19 Feb 1941: Embarked Driver, SX11036, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Disembarked with Unit in Singapore.
16 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Missing as per Direction 34 in Malaya.
5 Oct 1943: Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Now reported P.O.W.
16 Oct 1943: Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Now interned Thailand Camp.
20 Aug 1945: Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Recovered from Japs in Siam
20 Aug 1945: Transferred Driver, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Recovered from Japanese in Siam
2 Oct 1945: Transferred Driver, 2nd/14th Field Ambulance, Admitted for treatment in Singapore.
8 Oct 1945: Embarked Driver, SX11036, 2nd/14th Field Ambulance, Emplane Singapore, discharged from 2/14th Field Ambulance destination 4 M.D. South Australia.
9 Oct 1945: Embarked Driver, SX11036, General Hospitals - WW2, Deplane in 4 M.D. South Australia, admitted to Military Hospital, on Springbank Road for further treatment for hookworm and other illnesses.
16 Oct 1945: Transferred Driver, General Details Depot, Discharged from Hospital - Transferred to General Duties Depot for Discharge administration procedures.
21 Jan 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX11036
21 Jan 1946: Discharged
21 Jan 1946: Discharged Driver, SX11036, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Discharged at Hampstead Barracks, 4 M.D. South Australia.

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Biography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge

Married to Daphne. Service held fast Chapel Enfield.  he was in Group 1 2/2nd Res MT Coy.