EVANS, Walter Cyril
| Service Number: | WX9230 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 October 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Finchley, England, 31 May 1902 |
| Home Town: | Albany, Albany, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wharf labourer |
| Died: | Illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 14 June 1945, aged 43 years |
| Cemetery: |
Labuan War Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Albany War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX9230 | |
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| 30 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX9230 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
WX9230 Private Walter Cyril Evans, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force.
The 1494 POW's that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Private Evans, aged 43, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 14 June 1945.
He was the son of William George and Annie Evans and the husband of Ida Mary Evans, of Albany, WA.
He is buried in the Labuan Cemetery Section R, Row A, Plot 16.
Source: AWM
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