Charles John (Jack) ARCHER

ARCHER, Charles John

Service Number: VX37398
Enlisted: 23 July 1940, Royal Park, Victoria, Australia
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 8th Division Headquarters
Born: Kensington, Victoria, Australia, 11 April 1913
Home Town: Newmarket, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Locomotive Fireman
Died: Illness - Cholera, Thailand, 11 August 1943, aged 30 years
Cemetery: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Collective Grave 10, Row D, Grave 10-11
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, VX37398, 8th Division Headquarters
23 Jul 1940: Enlisted Royal Park, Victoria, Australia
23 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX37398

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Francis Desmond and Dora Louisa Archer, of Flemington, Victoria, Australia.

DUTY NOBLY DONE...MOTHER'S PAL

POW DIES IN MALAYA
Gunner C. J. (Jack) Archer, of the 4th Anti-tank Regiment, who died of illness while a prisoner of war in Malaya, was the only son of Mrs D. Thomas, of Finsbury st, Flemington, and the late Pte Frank Archer, a member of the First A.I.F, who was killed in action in 1917. He was employed by Victorian Railways before enlisting.