Hamilton Hill ACKLAND

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Service Number:	SX5581
Enlisted:	19 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 26 December 1913
Home Town:	Bow Hill, Mid Murray, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Shearing Contractor
Died:	4 March 1987, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karoonda Cemetery
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bowhill War Memorial, South Australian Garden of Remembrance

19 Jun 1940:	Involvement Private, SX5581
19 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX5581
19 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
23 Mar 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX5581, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Embarked HM Transport "MM"
4 Oct 1941:	Wounded Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX5581, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW2, Evac 73 Aust CCS (jaundice) Evac to 1 Aust Corps rest Station Discharged 1 ACRS returned to unit
1 Mar 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX5581, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Embarked 1/3/1942 'Suez' Disembarked 18/2/1942 'Batavia'
27 Apr 1942:	Imprisoned Australia's Northern Periphery, Reported missing in action, Java and transferred to 'x' list. By July 1943 it was confirmed he was a POW of Japan in Java.
13 Sep 1943:	Imprisoned Australia's Northern Periphery, 13/9/1943 Reported to be alive in Siam 20/08/1945 Recovered from the Japanese at Siam Sent to POW Repat in W.A - 16/10/1945
1 Nov 1944:	Imprisoned Thailand - Camp 4 WO 361 National Archive reference WO 361/1957 Record set Prisoners Of War 1715-1945
20 Oct 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX5581, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Left Singapore as a POW repat from Singapore to Fremantle on the "Highland'
8 Jan 1946:	Discharged
8 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX5581

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