Victor Gregory CARTER

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Service Number:	NX31953
Enlisted:	13 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/15th Field Regiment
Born:	Stewarts Brook, New South Wales, Australia, 9 April 1909
Home Town:	Aberdeen, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Slaughterman
Died:	Cerebral Malaria whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Burma, 5 January 1944, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Original burial site was Anakan (Anganan) (Aungganuang), Burma on the Burma Railway., Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Thanbyuzayat, Mon State, Myanmar
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Gunner, NX31953
13 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX31953, 2nd/15th Field Regiment
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Victor was captured with the Fall of Singapore and became a POW in Changi. He became part of "A" Force which left Changi 14th May 1942. "A" Force was the first of the major workforces that were sent to Burma to work on the railway.Victor died of Cerebral Malaria 5th January 1944.

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