ATWILL, Jeffrey Ernest David
Service Number: | SX10964 |
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Enlisted: | 16 January 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park |
Born: | Gloucestershire, England, 18 October 1919 |
Home Town: | Summertown, Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
Schooling: | Unknown |
Occupation: | Motor Driver & Station Hand |
Died: | Died in captivity as a PoW of the Japanese. Illness / malnourishment / mistreatment, Thailand, 27 November 1943, aged 24 years |
Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Collective grave 10 E 2-12 |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
16 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX10964 | |
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16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Prisoners of War | |
27 Nov 1943: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , SX10964, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Malaya/Singapore |
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Jeffrey Ernest David ATWILL was born in Gloucestershire, England on 18th October, 1919
His foster parents were Rowland Edward PHELPS & Amy Celia STAFFORD who married in England in 1914 (Stroud)
Jeffrey died of Illness whilst a Prisoner of War of the Japanese in Thailand on 27th November, 1943 and is buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery