MASON, Herbert Ernest
| Service Number: | WX8372 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 4 September 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lion Mill, Western Australia, 28 June 1900 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Gardener |
| Died: | Accidental, At sea (Nino Bixio), Mediterranean Sea, 17 August 1942, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bunbury War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Corporal, WX8372 | |
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| 4 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WX8372, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Ernest John and Flora Jane Mason; husband of Nora Mason, of Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia.
Biography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Herbert's parents married in 1897 in Guildford. He was the eldest of seven children. Bert was actually born in 1899 and made himself a year younger to enlist. He also served in WWI, enlisting in 1917 aged 18.
Bert married Nora FOWLER (1905-1998) in 1927 in Perth (reg. 686). They lived in Stirling Street, Bunbury and had two children. His widow Nora (known as Molly) remarried in 1948 to Leslie Hall PEARSON.
Bert's youngest brother Robert (b. 1921) served in WWII in the RAN; declared missing presumed dead in Singapore in 1943.
Their mother Flora died in 1943 while Bert was still a POW, and their father Ernest died only five years later.
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