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HOW, Vernon Kingsley
Personal Details
Service Number: | SX9426 |
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Enlisted: | 20 July 1940 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park |
Born: | Mclaren Vale, South Australia, 21 April 1917 |
Home Town: | Peake, The Coorong, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Illness while a POW of the Japanese, Borneo, 3 June 1945, aged 28 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated Peake Cemetery |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Angle Vale WW2 Honour Board, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bendigo Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Peake War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
20 Jul 1940: | Involvement Private, SX9426 | |
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20 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Wayville, SA | |
20 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX9426 | |
28 Oct 1940: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX9426, 2nd Infantry Training Battalion | |
28 Nov 1940: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX9426, 9th Divisional Ammunition Column | |
23 Oct 1941: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX9426, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Malaya/Singapore | |
2 Nov 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX9426, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Embarked on HMAT Zealandia for Singapore. | |
16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore | |
28 Mar 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX9426, Embarked Singapore with 'E' Force Prisoners of War for Borneo. | |
3 Jun 1945: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX9426, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Malaya/Singapore, Died Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp, Borneo. | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
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