
CADWGAN, Alwyn Douglas
Service Number: | WX7472 |
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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 |
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