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MIDGLEY, James Johnston
Personal Details
| Service Number: | NX25816 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy |
| Born: | Hampton, Lithgow - New South Wales, Australia, 20 October 1900 |
| Home Town: | Katoomba, Blue Mountains Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer & lorry driver |
| Died: | Illness - POW of Japan "Sandakan Death March", Sandakan, Borneo, 16 March 1945, aged 44 years |
| Cemetery: |
Labuan War Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
| 13 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Private, NX25816, 2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy | |
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| 13 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX25816, 2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy | |
| 7 Dec 1941: | Involvement Private, NX25816, 2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy, Malaya/Singapore | |
| 15 Feb 1942: | Involvement Private, NX25816, 2nd/3rd Motor Ambulance Convoy, Prisoners of War, Died in captivity - prisoner of Japan |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
James Johnston MIDGLEY was born in 1900 in Lithgow, New South Wales
His parents were Haley Anderson MIDGLEY & Elizabeth Ann JOHNSTON who married in Lithgow in 1895
He married Ina SHEARWOOD in Katoomba in 1938
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