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MAGNUSSON, Harold John
Personal Details
| Service Numbers: | NX36856 (N101153), NX36856 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/1st Heavy Battery |
| Born: | Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia, 24 September 1921 |
| Home Town: | Gladesville, Hunters Hill, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Presumed, At sea (South West Pacific Area), East China Sea, Pacific Ocean, 24 June 1944, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kranji War Cemetery No Known Grave; (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Column 115, Singapore Memorial, Singapore |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Singapore Memorial Kranji War Cemetery |
Service History
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Gunner, NX36856 (N101153), 2nd/1st Heavy Battery | |
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| 18 Jun 1941: | Involvement Gunner, NX36856 (N101153), 2nd/1st Heavy Battery, Malaya/Singapore | |
| 18 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Gunner, NX36856 (N101153), 2nd/1st Heavy Battery, Paddington, NSW, Australia | |
| 18 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX36856 | |
| 8 Dec 1941: | Embarked Gunner, NX36856 (N101153), 2nd/1st Heavy Battery, Embarked for overseas | |
| 15 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Hilmer Alderson and Rhoda Ellen Magnusson of Wentworthville, New South Wales.
12 December 1941 - Disembarked at East Indies
22 February 1942 - Posted as missing
5 August 1943 - Prisoner of War in Java
20 June 1944- Believed to have drowned as a result of the Japanese transport ship on which he was being transported to Burma as a Prisoner of War was torpedoed by an American submarine by near Nagataki
Other service number N101153