BUSWELL, Timothy Laurence
| Service Number: | NX36616 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 August 1940, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Provost Corps (WW2) |
| Born: | Cookardinia, New South Wales, Australia, 15 September 1900 |
| Home Town: | Mangoplah, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Jerra Jerra Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer / Building Contractor |
| Died: | Died of Illness - Colitis - (POW of Japan), Thailand, 13 September 1943, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: |
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) A13. B. 2. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Wagga Wagga Cenotaph |
World War 2 Service
| 1 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Private, NX36616, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales | |
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| 1 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX36616, Wagga Wagga, NSW | |
| 2 Aug 1940: | Involvement Private, NX36616 | |
| 15 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore | |
| 13 Sep 1943: | Involvement Corporal, NX36616, Australian Army Provost Corps (WW2), Prisoners of War |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Anthony Allen Buswell and Alice Buswell nee Goodwin; husband of Ivy Alice Buswell nee Goode, of Dulwich Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
FROM WAGGA, N.S.W. DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF IVY...AT REST
Survived by his wife, father, sisters Mrs Ruby Middleton, Mrs Vera Walsh, Mrs Katherine Dominick and Eileen, brothers Leslie, Allan, Donald and Lindsay.
CPL. TIM BUSWELL
Mrs. B. T.L. Buswell, of Dulwich Hill, Sydney, has been advised by the Army authorities that her husband, Cpl. Timothy L. Buswell, had died of illness in a prisoner of war camp in Japan, on September 13, 1943. Cpl. Buswell was the second eldest son of Mr. Anthony Buswell, and the late Mrs. Buswell, of "Riverton," via Wagga, and he was aged 43 years. He is survived by four brothers— Alan, of "Riverton"; Leslie, of Queenscliff (V.); Donald, of Boree Creek, and Lindsay, of Fiji; and four sisters — Ruby (Mrs. Middleton), of Cootamundra; Vera (Mrs. Walsh), of Sydney; Katherine, of Sydney; and Mrs. Dominic, of Toorak (V.). A brother and a sister predeceased him.
Cpl. Buswell enlisted in the Wagga district, before which he was on the land at Mangoplah.
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