Claude Ocea NASH

NASH, Claude Ocea

Service Number: WX17363
Enlisted: 22 October 1941
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Subiaco, Western AUstralia, 10 May 1919
Home Town: Subiaco, Nedlands, Western Australia
Schooling: Unknown
Occupation: Shop Assistant
Died: Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 23 March 1945, aged 25 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Subiaco Fallen Soldiers Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, WX17363
22 Oct 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX17363, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Claude Ocea NASH was born in Subiaco, Western Australia on 10th May, 1919

His parents were Richard Harry NASH & Ruby PIPER

He married Lila RANDLE in Perth, WA in 1941

Claude died from Illness whilst a prisoner of war in Borneo on 23rd March, 1945

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His brother Albert Frederick Richard NASH (SN 406576)

served during WW2 in the RAAF and died on 1st August 1942