Albert Brian Walter ANNETTS

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ANNETTS, Albert Brian Walter

Service Number:	WX13515
Enlisted:	24 May 1941
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Subiaco, Western Australia, 1 September 1918
Home Town:	Dalwallinu, Dalwallinu, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Malaya, 11 February 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Kranji War Cemetery Special Memorial C, Plot 4, Row C, Grave 18 Re-interred, Kranji War Cemetery, Kranji, Singapore
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Dalwallinu War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lance Corporal, WX13515
24 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Corporal, WX13515, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, WA
24 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, WX13515, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
11 Feb 1942:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Corporal, WX13515, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Malaya/Singapore

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Albert Brian Walter ANNETTS was born in Subiaco, Western Australia on 1st September, 1918

His parents were Walter William ANNETTS & May DELAHUNTY

He enlisted in Claremont, Western Australia on 24th May, 1941 with the 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion - he later joined E Company which consisted of reinforcements

Albert went missing in action and was later declared as killed in action when E Company ran into a Japanese ambush at South West Bukit, Timah

He was first buried in a mass grave but later re-interred in the Kranji War Cemetery and his name is memorialised on the Dalwallinu War Memorial in Western Australia & Australian War Memorial - His name is commemorated on the Ballarat Prisoner of War Memorial in Victoria even though he was never taken by the Japanese as a POW

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