RALSTON, Hayward Stanley Edgar
| Service Number: | SX10076 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy |
| Born: | Penola, South Australia, Australia, 4 July 1910 |
| Home Town: | Parkside, Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Unknown |
| Occupation: | Mail Officer |
| Died: | Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Thailand, 3 December 1943, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Plot 1, Row D, Grave 25 |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Penola Coonawarra & Penola Sub-Branch R.S.S.&A.I.L.A. Honour Roll, Penola Scholars Roll of Honor, Penola War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 7 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, SX10076 | |
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| 7 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Private, SX10076, Army Training Units, Adelaide, SA | |
| 21 Jan 1941: | Involvement Lance Corporal, SX10076, 2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy, Australia's Northern Periphery | |
| 7 Dec 1941: | Involvement Lance Corporal, SX10076, 2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy, Malaya/Singapore | |
| 16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Died a Prisoner of Japan, from illness on the Thai Burma railway | |
| 3 Dec 1943: | Involvement Lance Corporal, SX10076, 2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy, Prisoners of War | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Hayward Stanley Edgar RALSTON was born on 4th July, 1910 in Penola, South Australia
His parents were Robert Claude Simpson RALSTON and Sarah CAMPBELL
He married Nellie Irene May PITTARD on 20th June, 1936 at the Methodist Manse, Lefevre, Adelaide - no children
He served with the Australian Army Postal Service, AIF, 8th Division Postal Unit & also the 2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy
Hayward died as a Japanese Prisoner of War on the Thai Burma Railway and is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial and the Roll of Honour at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
His brother John Leslie Bryce RALSTON (SN - S75878) served as a Private with the 9th Battalion, Volunteer Defence Corps and was discharged in 1943
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IN MEMORIAM
RALSTON - In loving memory of SX10076 Hayward Ralston, who died of Illness while a P.O.W. Thailand Camp, December 3, 1943
Always remembered by his loving Mother & Brothers
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IN MEMORIAM - In loving memory of my husband Hayden who died POW Camp, Thailand Dec 3 1943
Gods greatest gift - Remembrance
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