Douglas Herbert MIDDLETON

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MIDDLETON, Douglas Herbert

Service Number:	QX21824
Enlisted:	22 July 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Chatham, England, 6 November 1921
Home Town:	Mundubbera, North Burnett, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Illness, Burma, 24 November 1943, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) A15 C 2
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, QX21824
22 Jul 1941:	Enlisted
22 Jul 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX21824, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
24 Nov 1943:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Wyndham Rupert and Hannah Goldsworth Middleton, of Mundubbera, Queensland, Australia.

JUST HAVEN SPED, SAFE IN GOD'S HOME PORT UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS

Father served with AIF in WW1

Assigned to F Force on Burma Thai Railway. Died from dysentery ulcers.

Survived by his parents Wyndham and Hannah, brother Mark, sisters June, Avril and Rita(W.A.A.F).

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