Max Archie ACKLAND

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ACKLAND, Max Archie

Service Number:	VX47645
Enlisted:	19 July 1940, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 6 January 1912
Home Town:	East Geelong, City of Greater Geelong, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grocer
Died:	Died at sea (Montevideo Maru), South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 30 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated ~ Panel 19, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX47645
19 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
19 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX47645, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion

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Biography

2/22 Battalion

Rank - Private

Son of Alice Ackland, of Geelong, Victoria.

Biography contributed by Stephen Bonald

Private Max Archie Ackland enlisted on 19th July 1940 in Caulfield, Victoria and served in New Britain. Following the Japanese invasion on 23rd January 1942, (Battle of Rabaul), he was taken prisoner of war (POW) and held at Rabaul. On 22nd June 1942, Private Ackland was one of an estimated 845 POWs and 209 civilians who embarked from Rabaul aboard the unmarked Japanese transport ship MV Montevideo Maru. The POWs were members of 2/22 Battalion, No. 1 Independent Company, and other units of Lark Force. Civilians included officials of the New Guinea Administration and missionaries. The ship sailed unescorted for Hainan Island. On 1st July 1942 all the prisoners died when the Montevideo Maru was torpedoed by a US Navy submarine, USS Sturgeon, off the coast of Luzon Island in the Philippines.

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