Thomas Cyril LETHBRIDGE

LETHBRIDGE, Thomas Cyril

Service Number: NX45810
Enlisted: 27 June 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Maitland, New South Wales, 9 December 1906
Home Town: West Maitland, Maitland, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Malaria, Borneo, 15 July 1945, aged 38 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Panel no. 26
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ranau Number 2 Prisoner of War Jungle Camp "The Last Camp Memorial"
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, NX45810
27 Jun 1940: Enlisted Newcastle, NSW
27 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX45810

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Biography

Thomas Cyril LETHBRIDGE was born on 9th December, 1906 in West Maitland NSW

His parents were Herbert William LETHBRIDGE and Gertrude Ann BAKER

He married Veronica IRWIN in 1927 (divorced in 1935)

He enlisted with the 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corp. on 27th June, 1940. He was one of over 200 allied prisoners of war held in the Sandakan POW camp in North Borneo having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of the B force.  The 1494 POWs who made up B force were transported from Changi on7th July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18th July 1942.  Private Lethbridge died  of malaria whilst a prisoner of the Japanese on 15th July 1945. Aged 38 years

COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2143345/LETHBRIDGE,%20THOMAS%20CYRIL (www.cwgc.org)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN MEMORIAM - Roll of Honour Sandakan

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/atrocities/sandakan/L/html/le_database_21.htm (www.roll-of-honour.org.uk)

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