Alan Malcolm FOX

FOX, Alan Malcolm

Service Number: NX37547
Enlisted: 30 June 1941
Last Rank: Gunner
Last Unit: Anti Tank Batteries / Companies
Born: Gordonvale, Queensland, Australia, 2 March 1920
Home Town: Concord, Canada Bay, New South Wales
Schooling: Certificate for entry to Secondary School and Intermediate Certificate.
Occupation: Clerk (Audit)
Died: Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 10 June 1945, aged 25 years
Cemetery: Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
CWGC Grave No: Plot 16. Row C. Grave 15. Inscription: "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE... IN GOD'S KEEPING".
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, St Lucia King's College WW2 Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Gunner, NX37547
30 Jun 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX37547
17 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Ambon, Captured and detained by the Japanese Occupation Force, at Tan Toey (Tantui) Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) Camp, Ambon Island.
10 Jun 1945: Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, Anti Tank Batteries / Companies, Ambon, Posted to 18th Anti-Tank Battery as part of Gull Force, died on this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese. Nature of death recorded as beri beri.

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