GIBBS, Stuart Henry
| Service Number: | WX9255 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 October 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Cardiff, South Wales, 29 November 1903 |
| Home Town: | Albany, Albany, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Dairy hand |
| Died: | Illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 24 February 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 |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX9255 | |
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| 30 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX9255 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
WX9255 Private Stuart Henry Gibbs, 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 E Force.
The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan.
The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Private Gibbs, aged 41, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 24 February 1945.
He was the son of Henry and Catherine J. Gibbs, and the husband of Lillian May Gibbs, of Woodville, SA.
He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 18.
Source: AWM
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