Vernon Kingsley HOW

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Service Number:	SX9426
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

20 Jul 1940:	Involvement Private, SX9426
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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