Malcolm Stuart DON

DON, Malcolm Stuart

Service Number: NX2466
Enlisted: 3 November 1939
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 2nd/1st Infantry Battalion
Born: Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, 1 December 1911
Home Town: Willoughby, Willoughby, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Sportsman - North Sydney Rugby Union footballer, amateur boxer and wrestler
Died: Illness, Germany, 12 April 1943, aged 31 years
Cemetery: Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany
Section 3, Row A, Plot 2
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Corporal Malcolm Stuart Don NX2466 of the 2/1st Battalion was interned as a Prisoner of War (# 10237) at Stalag XIIIc in Hammelburg am Main, Germany. He was captured in Crete whilst fighting against the German land and airborne invasion in May 1941.

Corporal Don died of meningitis and he was given a funeral at Hohenfels Cemetery with full military honours attended by 4000 Allied troops interned in the camp (his body was transferred to Durnbach War Cemetery after the war.)