Melvin (Curley) CALDER

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Service Number:	VX46865
Enlisted:	18 July 1940, Caufield, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Newport, Victoria, Australia, 10 August 1917
Home Town:	Newport, Hobsons Bay, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Storeman and Packer
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 20 June 1945, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: 16. B. 11. Inscription: "CURLEY" DARLING YOU ARE LIVING IN MY THOUGHTS. MOTHER".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX46865
18 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Caufield, Victoria
18 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX46865
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Died at Tan Toey (Tantui) P.O.W. Camp, Ambon Island whilst a prisoner of the Japanese Occupation Force. Nature of death recorded as beri beri.
20 Jun 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Member of Gull Force (Ambon).

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Son of William Steven Lindsay Calder and Rebecca Ivy Calder, of Newport, Victoria, Australia.

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