William Pleass GOVE

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Service Number:	VX25381
Enlisted:	11 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia , 31 December 1916
Home Town:	Warracknabeal, Yarriambiack, Victoria
Schooling:	Warracknabeal State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Presumed Dead, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 20 February 1942, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Ambon Memorial, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia Col 3 Warracknabeal Cemetery Victoria: Memorial Plaque on the Gravestone of his Parents, William Ernest & Susanna Esca Gove (nee Pleass).
Memorials:	Ambon Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Sheep Hills War Memorial, Warracknabeal World War Two Supreme Sacrifice Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX25381
11 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX25381
11 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX25381, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, On the 11th June 1940 William Pleass Gove Enlisted in the Australian Army as Private VX25381, 2/21 Infantry Battalion AIF.
12 Apr 1941:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, On the 12th April 1941 he Arrived in Darwin, 7th Military District with the 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion AIF.
13 Dec 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX25381, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, On the 13th December 1941 he Embarked for Service Overseas at Ambon, Dutch East Indies with the 2/21 Infantry Battalion AIF.
17 Dec 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX25381, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, On the 17th December 1941 he Disembarked at Ambon, Dutch East Indies with the 2/21 Infantry Battalion AIF.
2 Feb 1942:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX25381, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, On the 2nd February 1942 whilst fighting with "Gull Force" he was Reported as MIA (Missing In Ation) in Ambon, Dutch East Indies.
20 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, On the 27th March 1946 he was Classified as "Presumed Dead" as a POW at Laha on the 20th February 1942. His Body has never been Recovered and the full details of his final 20 days are yet to be discovered.

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