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BRINDLEY, Eric Jackson

Service Numbers:	NX39965, NX39965 (N11270)
Enlisted:	28 July 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	General Base Depot Malaya
Born:	Milsons Point, New South Wales, Australia, 9 March 1917
Home Town:	Crows Nest, North Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Window Dresser
Died:	Illness while a POW of the Japanese, Japanese Prisoner of War Camp, Burma, 6 November 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) A16. D. 7.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Crows Nest Presbyterian Church WW2 Book of Remembrance

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lance Corporal, NX39965
28 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Lance Corporal, NX39965 (N11270)
28 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, NX39965
17 Sep 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX39965, General Base Depot Malaya, Unit embarked at Sydney, NSW, Australia bound for Singapore.
5 Oct 1941:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX39965, General Base Depot Malaya, Malaya/Singapore, Unit arrived in Singapore from Sydney.
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of John Robert and Fanny Eva Brindley, of Crows Nest, New South Wales