Ernest Roy HORKINGS

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Service Number:	VX31277
Enlisted:	11 June 1940, Royal Park, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Blackburn, Victoria, Australia, 6 October 1910
Home Town:	Montmorency, Banyule, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Timber Worker/Truck driver
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 29 April 1945, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 21. Row D. Grave 8. Inscription: "HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Barnawartha War Memorial

11 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX31277, Royal Park, Victoria
11 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX31277
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Member of Gull Force died at Tan Toey (Tantui) P.O.W. Camp, Ambon Island whilst a prisoner of the Japanese Occupation Force. Nature of death recorded as beri beri.
29 Apr 1945:	Involvement Lance Corporal, VX31277, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Prisoners of War

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