Leonard Warren MUMME

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Service Number:	SX9839
Enlisted:	30 July 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	North Adelaide, South Australia,Australia , 10 December 1918
Home Town:	Toorak Gardens, Burnside, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 2 March 1945, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Labuan War Cemetery Panel 21 Memorial. Leonard died on the infamous Sandakan/Ranua death march in Borneo. Approx 2500 POWs perished thru exhaustion, malnutrition, disease and brutality by the Japanese officers and guards
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Burra High School Avenue of Memory, Whyalla Memorial Wall, Whyalla Roll of Honour

30 Jul 1940:	Involvement Lance Corporal, SX9839
30 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
30 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, SX9839
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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