Frederick Markwell (Bill) BARRYMORE

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BARRYMORE, Frederick Markwell

Service Number:	WX9589
Enlisted:	4 December 1940, Claremont, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Peppermint Grove, Western Australia, 2 September 1908
Home Town:	Claremont, Western Australia
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Traveller
Died:	Malaria, Thailand, 21 December 1943, aged 35 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Row F, Grave 47
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

4 Dec 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX9589, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, WA

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Frederick Markwell BARRYMORE was born in Peppermint Grove, Western Australia on 2nd September, 1908

His parents were Frederick William BARRYMORE & Cora Henrietta MARKWELL who married in Queensland on 14th March, 1893

He married Katherine Esme BARRY in Perth, WA in 1941

Frederick died as a Prisoner of War from Malaria on 21st December, 1943 and is buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery

His name is memorialised on the POW Memorial in Ballarat, Victoria, the Roll of Honour in Perth & the Australian War Memorial

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