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ANNESLEY, Frederick John
Personal Details
Service Number: | WX7905 |
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Enlisted: | 13 August 1940 |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
Born: | Collie, Western Australia, 23 March 1916 |
Home Town: | Collie, Collie, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Printer - Local Newspaper |
Died: | Died at sea (POW Rakuyo Maru), South China Sea, 16 September 1944, aged 28 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia |
Service History
World War 2 Service
13 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , WX7905 | |
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13 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, WX7905, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Leslie Wenbam Annesley and Janet Annesley; husband of Margaret Madge Annesley, of Scarborough, Western Australia.
He survived the horrors of Burma-Thai Railway to lose his life with the sinking of ‘Rakuyo Maru’ on their journey from Singapore to Japan in the South China China after it was hit by American Submarine torpedoes.