Alwyn Douglas (Taffy) CADWGAN

CADWGAN, Alwyn Douglas

Service Number: WX7472
Enlisted: 6 August 1940
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: Royal Australian Engineers
Born: Bridge End, Glamorganshire, Wales, 19 July 1901
Home Town: Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Coalminer & Farmer
Died: Malaria, Borneo, 2 June 1945, aged 43 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Panel no. 6, Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia, Morawa War Memorial
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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Alwyn Douglas CADWGAN was born on 19th July, 1901 which is 4 years earlier than stated on his war file

His parents were George Whitley CADWGAN and Mary Ann BIRTLES who married in 1891 in Bridge End, Glamorgan, Wales

Alwyn arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia in November, 1927 on the ship Osterley & in 1933 he married Lillian POOLE in Western Australia

He was taken Prisoner of War in 1942 and died of illness in the POW camp at Sandakan on 2nd June, 1945

He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial (Panel no. 6), the Australian War Memorial & the POW Memorial in Ballarat, Victoria

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