MCCUDDEN, Wallace Patrick
| Service Number: | WX8820 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 October 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Esperance, Western Australia, 18 May 1907 |
| Home Town: | Esperance, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Esperance, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Cardiac beri beri and typhus whilst a POW, Chungkai POW Hospital Camp, Thailand, 21 August 1943, aged 36 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Plot 1 Row M Grave 12 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Esperance War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX8820 | |
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| 23 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX8820, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
WX8820 Wallace 'Wally' Patrick McCudden
Born 18 May 1907 Esperance to John Patrick McCudden andEmma Ann Foote who married about 1897 Western Australia. The McCudden family moved around the mining towns of Esperance, Norseman and Kalgoorlie.
Wally was educated at Esperance.
He enlisted AIF 23 Oct 1940, later joining 2/4th MGB 'C' Company, 12 Platoon. His mate WX8814 'Potty' Clive Wharton White enlisted same day.
As POWs they worked around Singapore on various work parties.
They were included in the work party 'D' Force Thailand, S Battalion to work in the Hellfire Pass Cutting which left by train from Singapore 14 May 1943.
Wally was evacuated with party of sick from the railway to Chungkai POW Hospital Camp, Thailand (hardly a hospital with appalling conditions). It was at Chungkai Wally tragically died on 21 Aug 1943 of cardiac beri beri and typhus aged 36 years.
Submitted 7 November 2021 by Cheryl Mellor
Biography contributed
Wallace Patrick McCUDDEN was born in Esperance, Western Australia on 18th May, 1907
His parents were John Patrick McCUDDEN & Emma Ann FOOTE who married in WA on 5th August, 1897
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