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COX, Rupert Carlyle

Service Number:	NX32585
Enlisted:	25 June 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/15th Field Regiment
Born:	Jemarre, New Zealand, 27 June 1909
Home Town:	Shellharbour Village, Shellharbour, New South Wales
Schooling:	Waimataitai School, New Zealand
Occupation:	Baker
Died:	Illness while a POW of the Japanese, Borneo, 13 April 1945, aged 35 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" LABUAN MEMORIAL Panel 3. Malaysia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia, Wagga Wagga Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial

World War 1 Service

25 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Gunner, NX32585

World War 2 Service

25 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, NX32585, 2nd/15th Field Regiment
13 Apr 1945:	Involvement Lance Sergeant, NX32585, 2nd/15th Field Regiment

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Biography contributed by Gary Hockley

Son of Hector and Adelaide Louise Cox; husband of Gwendolyn Mary Cox, of Shellharbour, New South Wales.