Malcolm Saunders MULLANE

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MULLANE, Malcolm Saunders

Service Number:	WX8627
Enlisted:	18 October 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Leederville, Western Australia, 22 November 1902
Home Town:	Leederville, Vincent, Western Australia
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Cook
Died:	Accidental, At sea (Nino Bixio), Mediterranean Sea, 17 August 1942, aged 39 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

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, WX8627
18 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8627, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin

Malcolm was the ninth of 12 children born to John (Jack) and Norah, who married in Perth in 1885 (reg. 5960). His eldest brother died in infancy. Two of his older brothers enlisted in WWI; both were KIA (John James Christopher and William Edward). Two of his three remaining brothers served overseas in WWII (Norman Leopold and Leslie Walter).

Malcolm married Frances Florence Julia HATCH (1913-1961) in Perth in 1932 (reg 567). They had five children; one of their four daughters, Dorothea, died in 1946 aged 12. His widow Frances remarried in 1947 to George William BAILEY.

Biography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin

Malcolm was among the 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.

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