MCGEARY, Ernest Desmond
Service Numbers: | VX4917, VX56416 |
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Enlisted: | 2 September 1939, Discharged on 16th Feb. 1940 (CMF) |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Landsborough, Victoria, 10 October 1919 |
Home Town: | Sebastopol, Ballarat North, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | PoW of Japan - Borneo. Died of Illness (Malaria), Borneo, 21 June 1945, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel No. 16 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ringwood Country Roads Board WW2 Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
2 Sep 1939: | Enlisted Private, VX4917, 8 Infantry Battalion AMF, Discharged on 16th Feb. 1940 (CMF) | |
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21 May 1941: | Enlisted Private, VX56416, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion, Re-enlistment - Royal Park, Victoria | |
21 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX56416, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion | |
7 Dec 1941: | Involvement Private, VX56416, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore | |
16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Prisoners of War, Captured with the 2nd/29th Battalion in Singapore. Assigned to Borneo. Died of Malaria 21 June 1945 |
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Ernest Desmond McGEARY was born on 10th October 1919 in Landsborough, Victoria - no father listed - mother Isabella McGEARY
His Mother Isabella later married Harry BURT in 1928 in Victoria
He had previously enlisted on 2nd Nov. 1939 in the Army - Service No. VX4917 as a private in the 2/8 Battalion and was discharged on 16th Feb. 1940 (CMF)
He re-enlisted on 21st May, 1941 as a private with the 2/29 Infantry Battalion
Ernest died of Malaria on 21st June, 1945 in Borneo -- burial place not known - his name is listed on the Labuan Memorial
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