Eric Roy ANDERSON

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ANDERSON, Eric Roy

Service Number:	VX67161
Enlisted:	9 December 1941, Royal Park, Victoria
Last Rank:	Craftsman
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Ordnance Workshop
Born:	Coburg, Victoria, Australia , 29 August 1919
Home Town:	Coburg, Moreland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Sheet metal worker
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Borneo, 9 February 1945, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bendigo Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia

World War 2 Service

9 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX67161, 2nd/10th Ordnance Workshop, Royal Park, Victoria
26 Jan 1942:	Involvement Craftsman, VX67161, 2nd/10th Ordnance Workshop, Malaya/Singapore
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
9 Feb 1945:	Involvement Craftsman, VX67161, 2nd/10th Ordnance Workshop, Prisoners of War

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Biography contributed by Caz Bates

Son of Leslie Alexandera and Edith Maud Anderson, of Coburg, Victoria.

"...VX67161 Craftsman Eric Roy Anderson, 2/10th Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. 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. Craftsman Anderson, aged 25, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 9 February 1945. He was the son of Leslie Alexandera and Edith Maud Anderson, of Coburg, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 29..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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