Norman Allen GIBSON

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GIBSON, Norman Allen

Service Number:	WX10994
Enlisted:	12 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Mt Lawley, Western Australia, Australia, 10 August 1919
Home Town:	South Perth, South Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Jackeroo
Died:	Illness, Borneo, 24 June 1945, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Labuan War Cemetery Plot 20, Row E, Grave 6
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, South Perth Wesley College Lych Gate

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, WX10994
12 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX10994, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Allen Gibson was wounded in action at Reformatory Road, Ulu Pandan, Singapore and sent to a Field Ambulance with a shrapnel wound to his back. Captured during the fall of Singapore he was sent to the Selarang Camp Changi. Allen died in June 1945 as a prisoner of war on Sandakan-Ranau Track, Borneo, aged 25 years. His brother, 290657 Fying Officer Graham Ian Gibson RAAF, had been killed in battle flying a Hudson bomber in New Britain, 11 February 1942.

Their parents were Frank Norman and Ebba Gibson of Perth, Western Australia.

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