Vernon George DOLAN

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Service Number:	TX2782
Enlisted:	1 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Tunnack, Tasmania, Australia, 15 September 1912
Home Town:	Tunnack, Southern Midlands, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 6 October 1942, aged 30 years
Cemetery:	Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia Burial reference: - Plot 3, Row G, Grave 15. Personal inscription: - "HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONED".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, TX2782
1 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX2782, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
25 May 1942:	Imprisoned Died from unknown causes, Batavia.

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Parents: - George Ambrose Dolan and Amy Jane (Ann) Young married 1904 in Tasmania.

Wife: - Mary Esme (Molly) Simmons married in Hobart on 26th October 1940.