MASLIN, Selwyn Frank
| Service Number: | WX5372 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Capel, Western Australia, 3 May 1920 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butter Factory Hand |
| Died: | Accidental, At sea (Nino Bixio), Mediterranean Sea, 17 August 1942, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Col 91 |
| Memorials: | Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Capel War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Corporal, WX5372 | |
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| 27 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WX5372, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Selwyn's family lived in Capel WA. He was the fourth of five children. Two of his paternal uncles served in WWI: Guy Loftus MASLIN (2596) and George Wilfred MASLIN (4477).
Selwyn enlisted three months after his father John (known as Kelly) died in April 1940 (see obituary: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146852223). His mother Muriel remarried in 1943 to Thomas Mervyn LAMMING (W70541).
Selwyn was one of 41 Australian POWs killed when the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident, four died later by execution. Most of the Australian casualties were from the 2/28th Infantry Battalion.