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EDMONDSTONE, Bertie Joseph
Personal Details
Service Number: | NX36839 |
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Enlisted: | 10 September 1940, Wagga Wagga, NSW |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Wagga Wagga NSW, 13 March 1902 |
Home Town: | North Wagga, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Plasterer |
Died: | Illness - Cardiac Beri-Beri and Amoebic Dysentery whilst POW, Thailand, 29 August 1943, aged 41 years |
Cemetery: |
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) A1.B.14 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Wagga Wagga Cenotaph |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX36839 | |
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10 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX36839, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion, Wagga Wagga, NSW |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Amelia Mary Edmondstone. His Mother later married Alfred George Weeks
Husband of Mary Christina Edmondstone nee Crummond, of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.
DEARLY LOVED BY ALL
Survived by his wife and children, mother and half brothers Francis and Alfred Weekes/Weeks and sister Jeane Parker