Philip Arthur (Wally) GIESE

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Service Number:	WX7998
Enlisted:	13 August 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Wyalkatchem, Western Australia, 27 April 1918
Home Town:	Wyalkatchem, Wyalkatchem, Western Australia
Schooling:	Wesley College, South Perth, Western Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Illness while a POW of the Japanese, Brankassi Camp, Thailand, 28 September 1943, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery 1 L 59, Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Moora WW2 Honour Wall, South Perth Wesley College Lych Gate

13 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, WX7998, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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