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LEDWIDGE, Frank Bartle
Personal Details
| Service Number: | NX36469 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carrathool, New South Wales, Australia, 8 April 1901 |
| Home Town: | Merriwagga, Carrathool, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Illness as POW, Sandakan, Borneo, 12 March 1945, aged 43 years |
| Cemetery: |
Labuan War Cemetery Section 20, Row E, Plot 10 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Hillston Memorial Park Gates, Wagga Wagga Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX36469 | |
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| 17 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX36469, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Private Frank Bartle Ledwidge, of the 2/19th Battalion, Australian Infantry, was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of E Force. Private Ledwidge, aged 43, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 12 March 1945. He was the son of Michael and Rose Ann Ledwidge and the husband of Mabel Veronica Ledwidge, of Merriwagga, NSW.
His elder brother, 1358 Private Arthur Ledwidge 13th Battalion AIF had been killed in action at Gallipoli on the 28 April 1915, when Frank was 14 years of age.
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