Walter Benjamin CAIL

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Service Number:	NX50799
Enlisted:	24 June 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Born:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 15 October 1910
Home Town:	Gosford, Gosford Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Dysentery and Beri Beri whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Thailand, 28 December 1943, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Grave reference: - Plot 1. Row E. Grave 72. Personal Inscription: - "TO OUR FUTURE MEETING MAY REALIZATION BE AS SWEET AS MEMORY".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lance Corporal, NX50799
24 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, NX50799
28 Dec 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Died from illness.

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Parents: - Walter Benjamin Cail and Henrietta Mabel Wilson married June 1904 in Kamarooka, Victoria, Australia.

Wife:- Sybil Marian Sheardown married 1932 in Gosford, New South Wales, Australia.