Charles Palmer FURNER

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FURNER, Charles Palmer

Service Number:	SX1794
Enlisted:	1 March 1940, Wayville, SA
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Wallaroo, SA, 21 July 1918
Home Town:	Wallaroo, Copper Coast, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness, Japan, 25 June 1945, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium D B 5, Sydney War Cemetery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Wallaroo RSL Clubroom Honour Board, Wallaroo Soldiers Memorial Arch

World War 2 Service

1 Mar 1940:	Involvement Lieutenant, SX1794, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
1 Mar 1940:	Enlisted Wayville, SA
1 Mar 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, SX1794, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Mr. George P. Furner, of Wallaroo, recently received two cards, dated April and May, 1945, from his son, Lt. C. P. Furner, who has been a POW in Japanese hands for nearly three years. Lt. Furner stated that he and those with him were well and looking forward to the day of reunion.

Mr. Geo. P. Furner, of Alexander street, Wallaroo, has received official intimation that his son, Lt. C. P. Furner, AIF, died on January 25 1945. while a POW in Japan. He was taken prisoner on the fall
of Singapore. Lt. Furner was 26, and was born at Wallaroo.

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