FIELD, Gilbert Lawrence Cottle
| Service Number: | WX7360 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Albany, Western Australia , 23 January 1904 |
| Home Town: | Albany, Albany, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storekeeper |
| Died: | Illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 1 June 1945, aged 41 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia |
| Memorials: | Albany War Memorial, 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
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sapper, WX7360 | |
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| 6 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX7360 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
WX7360 Sapper Gilbert Lawrence Cottle Field, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers 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. Sapper Field, aged 41, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 1 June 1945.
He was the son of Henry William and Celia Annie Field, and the husband of Florence Alice Field, of Albany, WA.
He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 6.
Source: AWM
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