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FRANCIS, Fredrick Charles

Service Number:	NX46716
Enlisted:	15 July 1940
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	General Base Depot Malaya
Born:	East Maitland, New South Wales, 22 August 1915
Home Town:	Maitland, Maitland Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Borneo, 24 April 1945, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave - Panel 4, Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

15 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, NX46716, Newcastle, New South Wales
15 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX46716
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
24 Apr 1945:	Involvement Gunner, NX46716, General Base Depot Malaya, Prisoners of War

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