Geoffrey Theo HASTIE

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Service Number:	VX46427
Enlisted:	15 July 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia., 9 January 1918
Home Town:	Canterbury, Boroondara, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 20 July 1945, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 19. Row A. Grave 4.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Melbourne Cricket Club WW2 Honour Roll

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement VX46427
15 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, VX46427
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.
17 Jul 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Member of Gull Force, died on this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese. Nature of death recorded as beri beri.

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