Herbert Francis LEE

LEE, Herbert Francis

Service Number: VX19761
Enlisted: 11 June 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born: Barjarg, Victoria, Australia., 4 May 1916
Home Town: Maindample, Mansfield, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 10 June 1945, aged 29 years
Cemetery: Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
CWGC Grave No: Plot 16. Row C. Grave 2. Inscription: "DUTY NOBLY DONE…EVER REMEMBERED BY PARENTS, BROTHERS & SISTER"
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Mansfield War Memorial Gates
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, VX19761
11 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX19761
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.
10 Jun 1945: Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 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 and bacillary dysentery.

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