Finley Fraser ELDER

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Service Number:	WX8504
Enlisted:	18 October 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Scotland, 10 August 1904
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness whilst POW, Thailand, 11 June 1943, aged 38 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Grave A13. B. 7. Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE EVER REMEMBERED, Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Thanbyuzayat, Mon State, Myanmar
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, WX8504
3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, WX8504, 86 Light Aid Detachment
18 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8504

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Australian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
A.I.F. 86 L.A.D., Place of enlistment - CLAREMONT WA

He was 33 and the son of Donald William and Isabella Elder; husband of Catherine Elizabeth Elder, of Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia.

The war cemetery lies at the foot of the hills which separate the Union of Myanmar from Thailand.

Honoured on the Reay War Memorial in Scotland.