Valmont Oswald CRAWFORD

CRAWFORD, Valmont Oswald

Service Number: TX5206
Enlisted: 25 February 1941, Launceston, Tasmania
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/10th Ordnance Workshop
Born: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 22 October 1912
Home Town: Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 7 June 1945, aged 32 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Panel 29., Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia
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World War 2 Service

25 Feb 1941: Enlisted Private, TX5206, Launceston, Tasmania
25 Feb 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX5206
7 Jun 1945: Involvement Private, TX5206, 2nd/10th Ordnance Workshop, Prisoners of War

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Biography contributed by Darren Hennessey

"...TX5206 Private Valmont Oswald Crawford, 2/10th Field Ordnance Workshop, Australian Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POW's that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Private Crawford, aged 32, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 7 June 1945. He was the son of Robert Ernest and Mabel Crawford, and the husband of Gladys May Crawford, of Invermay, Tas. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 29." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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