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BARBER, Gordon Keith

Service Number:	QX13101
Enlisted:	29 June 1940, Mackay, QLD, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, 4 August 1907
Home Town:	Netherdale, Mackay, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness, Borneo, 8 December 1944, aged 37 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 15, Labuan Memorial (within Labuan War Cemetery) Labuan Federal Territory., Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia, Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, QX13101, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
29 Jun 1940:	Involvement Private, QX13101, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore
29 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, QX13101, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Mackay, QLD, Australia
29 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX13101, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, POW-Prisoner of War: 15/02/1942, to Date of Death: 08/12/1944, Died of illness-Borneo (Sandakan Camp).

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Biography contributed by Daniel Bishop

Son of Andrew & Annie Laura BARBER, of Nudgee, Brisbane City, Queensland.