Leonard Warren MUMME

MUMME, Leonard Warren

Service Number: SX9839
Enlisted: 30 July 1940
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: North Adelaide, South Australia, 10 December 1918
Home Town: Toorak Gardens, 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
Memorial. Leonald 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
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World War 2 Service

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