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BOCK, Edward Walter
Personal Details
Service Number: | VX56722 |
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Enlisted: | 12 August 1940 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion |
Born: | Essendon, Victoria, Australia, 28 December 1919 |
Home Town: | Essendon, Moonee Valley, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Storeman |
Died: | Septicaemia, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Burma (Myanmar), 9 October 1943, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Burial reference: - Plot A7, Row C, Grave 6. Personal Inscription: - "FOR DUTY NOBLY DONE HE WILL EVER BE REMEMBERED". |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, VX56722 | |
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12 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX56722, 2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion | |
7 Mar 1943: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Reported missing in action, Java, believed to be a prisoner of war. Died as a POW. |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Black
Parents: - Adolph Bock and Mary Emma Maskell,(married 1913 in Victoria) of Essendon, Victoria, Australia.