HINKLEY, Francis Joseph
| Service Number: | SX8858 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Motor Transport Company |
| Born: | Geraldton, Western Australia, 11 June 1910 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Chauffeur |
| Died: | Illness, Burma, 18 May 1943, aged 32 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, Streaky Bay and District Roll of Honour WW2 |
World War 2 Service
| 13 Jul 1940: | Involvement Private, SX8858 | |
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| 13 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 13 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8858, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 11 Feb 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8858, 2nd Motor Transport Company, embarked for Singapore per HMT QXI | |
| 16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Reported Missing, confirmed PoW of Japanese in 1943; died of disease in PoW Camp in Burma on 18 May 1943 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Francis Joseph Hinkley (Service No:SX8858) enlisted in the Army on 2 July 1940 and served in the Northern Territory before embarking for Singapore on 11 February 1941 with 2 Reserve Motor Coy. Private Hinkley was reported missing on 16 February 1942 and confirmed as a PoW of the Japanese in 1943. He died of diesease in Burma on 18 May 1943. Uncle John Hinkley (Service No:5108) served in the AF in WWI and Uncle Thomas Hinkley (Service No:24/465) served with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.
Born in 1910 in Geraldton Western Australia, Frank was the only child of George Hinkley (b1876 in Chetwynd, Victoria) and Eliza Lavina Truran (b1875 in Cornwall, England). George arrived in Albany WA from Victoria in 1900 and Eliza immigrated to Fremantle WA in 1880. George (a Railway Repairer) and Eliza married in 1910 in Perth WA and lived in Greenough and Mullewa where George was a Railway Repairer and Labourer, and a Farmer in 1914 at Eradu nr Geraldton, before settling in Adleaide, South Australia.
Frank worked as a Chauffeur in Adelaide, South Australia before enlisting in the Army in 1940.
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