James DOWNING

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Service Number:	SX8981
Enlisted:	16 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park
Born:	Rockleigh, South Australia, 10 August 1902
Home Town:	Mount Barker, Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm labourer
Died:	Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese, Thailand, 10 August 1943, aged 41 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma)
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Mount Barker War Memorial

16 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8981
16 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
16 Jul 1940:	Involvement Private, SX8981
2 Nov 1941:	Embarked SX8981, HMAT Zealandia for Singapore
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Became a POW of the Japanese
23 Apr 1943:	Transferred 8th Division Ammunition Sub-Park, Entrained with F Force for Burma-Thailand Railway
Date unknown:	Involvement

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