Robert Michael HADDON

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Service Number:	NX26564
Enlisted:	19 June 1940
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	Anti Tank Batteries / Companies
Born:	Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia, 3 June 1910
Home Town:	Condobolin, Lachlan, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Unemployed
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 22 September 1944, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 20. Row D. Grave 15. Inscription:" HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE...EVER REMEMBERED".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Gunner, NX26564
19 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX26564
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Captured and detained by the Japanese Occupation Force, at Tan Toey (Tantui) Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) Camp, Ambon Island.
22 Sep 1944:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, Anti Tank Batteries / Companies, Ambon, Posted to 18th Anti-Tank Battery as part of Gull Force. Died on this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese. Nature of death recorded as beri beri.

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