Henry Edward MCAPPION

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Service Number:	WX7015
Enlisted:	5 January 1940
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	2nd/6th Field Park Company
Born:	Leonora, Western Australia, 26 August 1918
Home Town:	Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm hand
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Borneo, 4 June 1945, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Labuan War Cemetery Plot 9, Row A, Grave 7, Labuan War Cemetery, Labuan, Malaysia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial

5 Jan 1940:	Enlisted Private, WX7015, Claremont, Western Australia
5 Jan 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX7015
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Was declared Missing in Action but later found to have died whilst a Prisoner of War
4 Jun 1945:	Involvement Sapper, WX7015, 2nd/6th Field Park Company, Prisoners of War

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Son of James Edward and Imogene McAppion; husband of Beryl Jean Sylvester McAppion of North Fremantle, Western Australia

Medals: 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, War Medal. Medals were not issued until 1 April 1953