Bertie Joseph (Bert) EDMONDSTONE

EDMONDSTONE, Bertie Joseph

Service Number: NX36839
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)
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Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Wagga Wagga Cenotaph
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, NX36839
10 Sep 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX36839, 2nd/30th Infantry Battalion, Wagga Wagga, NSW

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Biography 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