Arthur Gilbert CROUCH

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Service Number:	VX31614
Enlisted:	22 June 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 10 November 1917
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Rubber Worker
Died:	Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese, Borneo, 24 April 1945, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan Memorial Panel 21.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lance Corporal, VX31614
22 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, VX31614
7 Jul 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Arthur 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. Lance Corporal Crouch, aged 27, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 24 April 1945 during the Sandakan death march.

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