MOIR, Ross Newland
| Service Number: | WX11442 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 April 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Albany, Western Australia , 1 February 1913 |
| Home Town: | Borden, Gnowangerup, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Guildford Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Labourer - Farmers Assistant |
| Died: | Accidental, At sea (Nino Bixio), Mediterranean Sea, 17 August 1942, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Borden Memorial, Gnowangerup War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement WX11442 | |
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| 5 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, WX11442, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Ross was the eldest of six children born to Gordon and Gladys. Three of the four sons served in WWII, one in the AIF, one in the RAN, and one in the RAAF.
Ross married Betty Winifred BUNGEY in Katanning in 1940, the year before he enlisted. She remarried in 1950 to Percival BEERE.
Ross was one of 41 Australian POWs killed when the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident, four died later by execution. Most of the Australian casualties were from the 2/28th Infantry Battalion.
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Moir, of "Mara" Bordon, received word recently from the Army authorities that their eldest son, Pte. Ross Moir had been reported missing, believed prisoner of war. Ross was fighting in Egypt and is believed to have been amongst the Western Australians who were captured at Ruin Ridge, on the north end of the Alemein Line, about a fortnight ago.
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