Bertram Alfred BENDALL

BENDALL, Bertram Alfred

Service Number: WX17864
Enlisted: 3 December 1941
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Donnybrook, Western Australia, Australia , 13 November 1914
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Illness - Prisoner of War, Borneo, 12 February 1945, aged 30 years
Cemetery: Labuan War Cemetery
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Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Donnybrook War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, WX17864
3 Dec 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX17864, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

WX17864 BENDALL, Bertram ‘Bert’ Alfred POW, died Sandakan 12 February 1945 of cardiac beri beri aged 30 years.

Bert’s parents married  England in 1908 after which they sailed to Australia, eventually settling to farm at Donnybrook where they grew apples and other fruits.

Bert was the second of three children, he had an older brother Will and younger sister Margery.  The children would have attended school at Donnybrook.

When Bert enlisted 3 December 1941 he joined 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion reinforcements – sailing 6 weeks later on ‘Aquitania’ for Singapore on 16 January, 1942.  Bert had spent the previous 12 months with 15th Machine Gun Brigade Militia.

http://2nd4thmgb.com.au/story/donnybrook-war-memorial/

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