Gordon John BARKER

BARKER, Gordon John

Service Number: SX9269
Enlisted: 20 July 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park
Born: Adelaide, SA, 25 September 1915
Home Town: Norwood (SA), South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Illness, Borneo, 3 March 1945, aged 29 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, City of Kensington & Norwood Honour Roll World War II Book and Case, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia
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World War 2 Service

20 Jul 1940: Involvement Private, SX9269, 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park
20 Jul 1940: Enlisted Adelaide, SA
20 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX9269
Date unknown: Involvement

Gordon Barker

Gordon was a prisoner of war in Changi prison Singapore.On a work detail from the prison one day the men where made to line up in single file,every other man was taken,of which Gordon was one and transported to Borneo where he died as a prisoner of war. Gordon was a Cartographer in Adelaide.

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