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CALLAGHAN, Laurence Vernon
Personal Details
Service Number: | NX7076 |
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Enlisted: | 6 May 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
Born: | Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, 30 August 1916 |
Home Town: | Glen Innes, Glen Innes Severn, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Factory Hand |
Died: | Dysentery whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Thailand, 14 October 1943, aged 27 years |
Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot 1, Row A, Plot 36 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Glen Innes World War 2 Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX7076 | |
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6 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX7076 | |
16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Died of illness. |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Black
Parents: - John Edmund Callaghan and Mary Veronica Parker, (married 1st October 1908 in Bundarra, New South Wales) of Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia.