Thomas Henry (Tom) DORIZZI

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DORIZZI, Thomas Henry

Service Number:	WX12884
Enlisted:	14 May 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Perth, Western Australia, 24 February 1914
Home Town:	Toodyay, Toodyay, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Truck Driver
Died:	Illness while a POW, Ranau No. 1 Camp, Borneo, 11 March 1945, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia Panel 18
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia

World War 2 Service

14 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX12884, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
15 Feb 1942:	Involvement Private, WX12884, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Prisoners of War

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Biography contributed by Robert Johnson

Tom Dorizzi was wounded in action at Bouna Vista on 15.2.1942. Admitted to 2/13th Australian General Hospital with a shrapnel wound to his right leg on 15.2.1942. Discharged to unit on 23.2.1942.

Tom Dorrizi was eldest of the Dorrizi boys from Toodyay. He was the last to enlist AIF 14 May 1941, later joining 2/4th’s ‘A’ Coy, No. 6 Platoon with Gordon, both were Drivers.

He was married to Harriett Ellen Maude (Nellie) Smith, his brother in law Jack Baker WX9367 was married to sister of Harriett, Sylvia (Joyce) Smith. Jack was one of Tom’s good mates.

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