Thomas James CASTLES

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Service Number:	NX37778
Enlisted:	28 June 1941, Tumut, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/12th Field Ambulance
Born:	Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia, 29 December 1908
Home Town:	Junee, Junee, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of Illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Hainan Island, China, 5 February 1943, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Yokohama War Cemetery Aust Sec D D 1
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boorowa War Memorial

28 Jun 1941:	Involvement Lance Corporal, NX37778, 2nd/12th Field Ambulance
28 Jun 1941:	Enlisted Tumut, New South Wales
2 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, NX37778, 2nd/12th Field Ambulance

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Son of Lawrence Castles and Mary Ann Molloy, married in Tumut, NSW, in 1935 to Florence May Loblinzk.

(Died whilst a POW of Japan)

Cemetery details: Yokohama War Cemetery, Yokohama, Kanto, Japan