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MCPHAIL, Alan Ross

Service Number:	VX31956
Enlisted:	19 June 1940
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE
Born:	South Yarra, Victoria, 10 June 1920
Home Town:	Kerang, Gannawarra, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Thailand, 15 June 1943, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Plot A13, Row B, Grave 10, Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Thanbyuzayat, Mon State, Myanmar
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Melbourne Cricket Club WW2 Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

19 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX31956, Royal Park, Victoria
19 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX31956
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Died of illness while a Prisoner of War with the Japanese
15 Jun 1943:	Involvement Sapper, VX31956, 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Prisoners of War

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Angus and Alice Maud McPhail of Kerang, Victoria, Australia