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NASH, Claude Ocea
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | WX17363 |
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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 |
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