Edward Maxfield KROSCHEL

KROSCHEL, Edward Maxfield

Service Number: VX63470
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
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, VX63470
22 Sep 1941: Enlisted VX63470, Royal Park, Vic.
22 Sep 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, VX63470

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Biography 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.

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