KROSCHEL, Edward Maxfield
Service Number: | VX63470 |
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Enlisted: | 22 September 1941, Royal Park, Vic. |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
Born: | Mansfield, Victoria, Australia, 27 April 1920 |
Home Town: | Nar Nar Goon, Cardinia, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Railway Employee |
Died: | Illness, Borneo, 18 January 1945, aged 24 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No Known Grave; (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Panel 28., Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, VX63470 | |
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22 Sep 1941: | Enlisted VX63470, Royal Park, Vic. | |
22 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, VX63470 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adrian Jones
Son of Edward Henry and Jessie Muriel KROSCHEL
Of East Brighton, Vic.
Lance-Cpl Max Kroschell, son of Mr and Mrs E. Kroschell, of Point
Nepean rd, East Brighton, who was taken prisoner at Singapore, is now known to have died while a prisoner of war in Borneo on
January 18.
Lance-Cpl Kroschell was attached to the 27th Field Park Ordnance. Before his enlistment he was employed by the Victorian Railways. During his imprisonment he was able to get only three letters through to his parents. One of these, saying he was fit and well, arrived two weeks before his parents received official news of his death.