Halwyn Wilfred (Hal) BUTTSWORTH

BUTTSWORTH, Halwyn Wilfred

Service Number: NX44870
Enlisted: 16 September 1941, Paddington, Sydney
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
Born: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 12 September 1909
Home Town: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Schooling: Hobart State High School & University of Tasmania
Occupation: Commonwealth Bank Clerk
Died: Acute Enteritis, Fukuoka POW Camp, Japan, 18 December 1944, aged 35 years
Cemetery: Yokohama War Cemetery
Section B D 14, Yokohama War Cemetery, Yokohama, Kanto, Japan
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Barton St Andrew's Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, NX44870
16 Sep 1941: Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, NX44870, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion, Paddington, Sydney
16 Sep 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX44870, 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion
15 Feb 1942: Imprisoned
18 Dec 1944: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, NX44870, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Halwyn Wilfred (Hal) BUTTSWORTH was born in Launceston, Tasmania on 12th September, 1909

His parents were Arthur Joshua BUTTSWORTH & Alice Irene CAGNEY

He married Ella Annie Merrie McLEOD in Sydney in 1939 - one daughter Anne who he never met

He enlisted in Paddington, Sydney on 16th September, 1941 with the 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion - he was taken a Prisoner of War on 15th February, 1942 (see links for further information about him)

Hal was taken ill with pneumonia but recovered and was then stricken with acute enteritis and died in the Fukouka POW Camp in Japan & is buried in the Yokohama War Cemetery

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the POW Memorial in Ballarat

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