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Other Name:	Columbine, Royce Ernest - True Name
Service Number:	VX57176
Enlisted:	3 June 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/13th Australian General Hospital
Born:	Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia, 11 August 1924
Home Town:	Port Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Beri Beri, Borneo, 7 February 1945, aged 20 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

3 Jun 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX57176, General Hospitals - WW2
7 Feb 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX57176, 2nd/13th Australian General Hospital

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Roy AYLETT was born Royce Ernest COLUMBINE in Queenstown, Tasmania on 11th August, 1924

His parents were Ernest Frederick COLUMBINE & Evelyn AYLETT who married on 6th August, 1913 in St James, Waratah, Tasmania (divorced in 1933)

He was also known as Royce Ernest COLUMBINE

His mother Evelyn remarried in 1934 in Victoria to a Charles Leslie FREDRICKSON in Victoria - she died in Victoria in 1984

Roy was taken prisoner of war of the Japanese ( POW No. 1577) and died in Sandakan, Borneo on 7th February, 1945 of illness- no known grave

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial and the Labuan Memorial

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