Robert Warwick BELFORD

BELFORD, Robert Warwick

Service Numbers: NX43710, N274396
Enlisted: 28 July 1941
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion
Born: Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia, 17 December 1918
Home Town: Redfern, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Presumed dead, Malaya, 28 February 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Singapore Memorial Kranji War Cemetery
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, NX43710
28 Jul 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N274396
26 Aug 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX43710, 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Jason Thoroughgood

Served with the 2/18th Infantry Battalion in Malaya. Believed to have been lost on the SS Ban Ho Guan, a Dutch ship evacuating Allied military and civilian personel from Sumatra to Java on or around the 28th of February 1942. This ship was lost with no survivors, possibly sunk by a Japanese submarine. Robert was the son of Robert & Ada and was the husband of Bessie, they lived in Redfern, Sydney. He was 23 at the time he was listed as missing.