James Edward CARNEY

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CARNEY, James Edward

Service Number:	NX47355
Enlisted:	28 August 1940, Enlisted Newcastle, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, 18 July 1918
Home Town:	Kempsey, Kempsey, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not known
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of Illness in Captivity - Prisoner of War, Burma, 30 November 1943, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery A12.C.18 Honoured Kempsey NSW Street of Honour named after him James Carey Cres
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World War 2 Service

28 Aug 1940:	Enlisted 2nd AIF WW 2, Private, SN NX47355 , 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted Newcastle, NSW
18 Feb 1941:	Involvement 2nd AIF WW 2, Private, SN NX47355 , 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion, Australia's Northern Periphery
7 Dec 1941:	Involvement 2nd AIF WW 2, Private, SN NX47355 , 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Prisoners of War

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

James Edward CARNEY was born on 18th July, 1918 in Kempsey, NSW

His parents were Thomas Edward CARNEY & Maude Matilda RYDE who married in Kempsey in 1915

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IN MEMORIAM

CARNEY - In sad but loving remembrance of our darling son & brother, Private James Edward Carney who died whilst a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp in Burma on 30th November, 1943

"The voice we loved we hear no more

that voice is forever still

but oft in memory and in love

our eyes with tears will fill"

Inserted by his sorrowing Mother, Brothers & Sisters

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