Owen GLYNN

GLYNN, Owen

Service Number: QX7842
Enlisted: 18 June 1940
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: 2nd/11th Field Regiment
Born: Croydon, Queensland., 24 January 1905
Home Town: Dimbulah, Tablelands, Queensland
Schooling: Peeramon State School, Queensland.
Occupation: Surveyor/Locomotive engine driver
Died: Died of illness (POW of Japan - starvation), Hainan Island, China, 27 August 1945, aged 40 years
Cemetery: Yokohama War Cemetery
Yokohama War Cemetery, Yokohama, Kanto, Japan
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

18 Jun 1940: Enlisted QX7842, Cairns, Queensland
18 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX7842
19 Jun 1940: Involvement Sapper, QX7842, 2nd/11th Field Regiment, Malaya/Singapore
22 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Owen GLYNN was born in Croydon, Queensland on 24th January, 1905

His parents were Owen GLYNN and Maud CASEY