Gordon GOOD

GOOD, Gordon

Service Number: NX32109
Enlisted: 1 July 1940, Paddington, New South Wales
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
Born: Riverton, South Australia, 4 April 1910
Home Town: Enmore, Inner West Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 13 July 1945, aged 35 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Panel 11, Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia, Ranau Number 2 Prisoner of War Jungle Camp "The Last Camp Memorial"
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World War 2 Service

1 Jul 1940: Enlisted NX32109, Paddington, New South Wales
1 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, NX32109, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
13 Jul 1945: Involvement Lieutenant, NX32109, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion, Prisoners of War

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

"...NX32109 Lieutenant Gordon Good, 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POW's that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Lieutenant Good, aged 35, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 13 July 1945. He was the husband of Dorothy Margaret Good, of East Sydney, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 11..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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