William Allen COOLING

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Service Number:	VX65166
Enlisted:	24 October 1941, Royal Park, Vic.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Ordnance Workshop
Born:	Malvern, Victoria, Australia, 28 December 1913
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor Body Builder
Died:	Illness after operation on brain whilst a prisoner of the Japanese , Burma, 8 November 1942, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) A12. B. 16.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX65166
24 Oct 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX65166, 2nd/10th Ordnance Workshop, Royal Park, Vic.

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Son of Francis Richard COOLING and Edith May nee DAVIDSON

Husband of Marjorie Ellen COOLING nee DAY, of Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia. (married 1942)

Survived by his parents, wife and sister Mrs Edith Watts, Dorothy, Shirle and Elaine, brothers Charles, Geoffrey and Kenneth..