BIDSTRUP, Neal Mortimer
| Service Numbers: | QX16936, QX6936 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 April 1941, Toowoomba |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warra, Queensland, Australia, 6 July 1914 |
| Home Town: | Warra, Western Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Dalby State School |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Cholera, Shimo Sonkurai Camp, Thailand, 27 May 1943, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Grave Ref A6 B 13 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Dalby 'The Fallen' Honour Board, Dalby War Memorial, Warra War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, QX16936 | |
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| 23 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, QX6936, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Toowoomba | |
| 23 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX16936, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion | |
| 27 May 1943: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, QX6936, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Neal Mortimer BIDSTRUP was born in Warra, Queensland on 6th July, 1914
His parents were Alfred Cyril BIDSTRUP & Jane MORTIMER who married in Warra in 1911 - he had one known sister, Anna Eva
His father Alfred served in WW1 (SN2900) and returned to Australia in 1919
He enlisted in Towoomba on 23rd April, 1941 with the 2/26th Infantry Battalion
Neal was taken prisoner of war after the fall of Singapore and died of Cholera in the Shimo Sonkurai Camp in Thailand on 27th May, 1943
He is buried in the Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery
He left his entire estate to his fiancee Eileen Agnes ANDERSON
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
During the weekend, word was received in Warra of the death of Neal Mortimer Bidstrup, of 'Ehlma Park', Warra, a member of the AIF, whilst a prisoner of war in Japanese hands in Malaya. Taken prisoner in the Malayan campaign death from sickness occurred on May 27th, 1948. Mrs Gordon Kuhl of 'Ehlma Park', Warra, is a sister.
FIANCEE RECEIVES
POW's ESTATE
BRISBANE, April 21.—In his will, which was admitted to probate today, Neal Mortimer Bidstrup, farmer of Warra, near Dalby, who died on war service with the AIF in May, 1943, left his estate valued at £4633 (gross) to his fiancee, Miss Eileen Anderson, of Mt Mee. Bidstrup died of cholera in a prisoner-of-war camp in Thailand.
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