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MCMANUS, Samuel James Anzac
Personal Details
| Service Number: | VX32003 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Anti Tank aka Tank Attack Regiment |
| Born: | Albert Park, Victoria, Australia , 15 June 1916 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Illness while a POW of the Japanese, Borneo, 27 March 1945, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan Memorial, Malaysia, Panel 1 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bendigo Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sergeant, VX32003 | |
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| 13 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, VX32003, 2nd/4th Anti Tank aka Tank Attack Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Samuel James Anzac McManus of the 4th Anti Tank Regiment, died as a prisoner of war of the Japanese on 27 March 1945. He was the born a month before his father, Samuel Paul McManus 60th Battalion AIF was killed in action at Fromelles 19 July 1916. The father's brother Patrick John McManus, alo of the 60th Battalion AIF, was also killed in action on the same day at Fromelles.
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