John Wallace BLACKIE

BLACKIE, John Wallace

Service Number: NX65224
Enlisted: 31 July 1940, Paddington, NSW
Last Rank: Warrant Officer Class 1
Last Unit: 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
Born: Edinburgh, Scotland, 24 November 1899
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Chartered Accountant
Died: Illness, Borneo, 2 June 1945, aged 45 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Panel 13 No known grave Roll of Honour Sydney , Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Warrant Officer Class 1, NX65224
31 Jul 1940: Enlisted Paddington, NSW
31 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 1, NX65224, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion

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Biography

2/20 Battalion

Rank - Warrant Officer 1

Son of Walter and Helen Blackie; husband of Mary Catherine Blackie, of Haberfield, New South Wales.