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WHITFIELD, Kenneth George

Service Number:	NX57533
Enlisted:	25 July 1940, Paddington, NSW
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	8th Division Signals
Born:	Glenelg, South Australia, 4 February 1913
Home Town:	Strathfield, Strathfield, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Illness while a POW of the Japanese , Japan, 21 April 1945, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Yokohama War Cemetery PLOT Aust. Sec. E. B. 7. MEMORIAL ID12971679 , Yokohama War Cemetery, Yokohama, Kanto, Japan
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Municipality of Strathfield WW2 Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

25 Jul 1940:	Involvement Corporal, NX57533
25 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Paddington, NSW
25 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, NX57533
7 Aug 1940:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Signaller, 8th Division Signals
2 Feb 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Signaller, NX57533, 8th Division Signals, Embarked from Sydney on HMT "QM". Disembarked in Singapore on 19 Feb 1941.
19 Dec 1941:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, 8th Division Signals, Acting Corporal.
10 Jan 1942:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, 8th Division Signals
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
10 May 1943:	Imprisoned Thai-Burma Railway POW Camp slave worker.
15 Jan 1945:	Imprisoned Fukouka POW Camp slave worker in Japan.
21 Apr 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, NX57533, 8th Division Signals, P.O.W. Death.

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