Percy Raymond GRONO

GRONO, Percy Raymond

Service Number: NX54517
Enlisted: 25 June 1940
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: 2nd/12th Field Company / Squadron RAE
Born: Fairfield, New South Wales, 6 May 1919
Home Town: Fairfield, Fairfield, New South Wales
Schooling: Faifield Public School
Occupation: Railway Porter
Died: Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Borneo, 1 May 1945, aged 25 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Panel 6, Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

25 Jun 1940: Enlisted Private, NX54517, Field Company Engineers, Paddington, Sydney
25 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX54517
1 May 1945: Involvement Sapper, NX54517, 2nd/12th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Prisoners of War

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Biography

Percy Raymond GRONO was born in Fairfield, Sydney, NSW on 6th May, 1919

His parents were Frank GRONO & Wilhelmina ADYVEAN who married in Sydney in 1905