Garth YATES

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Service Number:	SX9909
Enlisted:	31 July 1940, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Division Salvage Unit
Born:	Angaston, South Australia, 27 February 1914
Home Town:	Angaston, Barossa, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Borneo, 9 March 1945, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Panel 31, Labuan Memorial (within Labuan War Cemetery)., Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Angaston District WW2 Roll of Honour, Angaston War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia

31 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX9909
31 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, SX9909, Adelaide, South Australia
4 Dec 1940:	Involvement Private, SX9909, 8th Division Salvage Unit
30 Jul 1941:	Embarked Private, SX9909, 8th Division Salvage Unit, HMT EE (Marnix van St Aldegonde), Melbourne
8 Feb 1942:	Involvement Private, SX9909, 8th Division Salvage Unit, Malaya/Singapore
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
9 Mar 1945:	Involvement Private, SX9909, 8th Division Salvage Unit, Prisoners of War, Died at Ranau, after first Sandakan Death March.
Date unknown:	Involvement

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