Leonard Warren MUMME

MUMME, Leonard Warren

    Service Number: SX9839
    Enlisted: 30 July 1940, Adelaide, SA
    Last Rank: Lance Corporal
    Last Unit: 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park
    Born: North Adelaide, South Australia,Australia , 10 December 1918
    Home Town: Toorak Gardens, Burnside, South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 2 March 1945, aged 26 years
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bendigo Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Burra High School Avenue of Memory, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia, Whyalla Memorial Wall, Whyalla Roll of Honour
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    World War 2 Service

    30 Jul 1940: Involvement Lance Corporal, SX9839
    30 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, SX9839, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Adelaide, SA
    28 Mar 1943: Imprisoned Shipped to Sandakan, Borneo, from Changi prison 28 March 1943 after the fall of Singapore, Leonard died on the infamous Sandakan/Ranua death march. Approx 2500 POWs perished thru exhaustion, malnutrition, disease and by the brutality by the Japanese officers and guards.
    Date unknown: Involvement

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    Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

    Son of Harry Warren Mumme and Muriel Clarissa Lois Mumme, of Toorak Gardens, South Australia.

    Mr and Mrs. Harry W Mumme of Ormond Grove, Toorak Gardens, have been notified by the Military that their son, L/Cpl L. W. Mumme, died on March 2nd, 1945, while a Prisoner of War in Japanese hands.

     

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