Rolf Walker NEWLING

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Service Number:	WX8865
Enlisted:	25 October 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Perth, Western Australia, 5 June 1911
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness while a POW of the Japanese, Ranau, Borneo, 13 June 1945, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Labuan War Cemetery Plot 19, Row C, Grave 7
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Northam Fallen, Ranau Number 2 Prisoner of War Jungle Camp "The Last Camp Memorial"

25 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8865, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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Rolf Walker NEWLING was born in Perth, Western Australia on 5th June 1911

His parents were William John NEWLING & Lillian Mary WALKER

He married Eileen Alice McCOMISH in Western Australia in 1933 - two children, Joan & Gordon

He died as a prisoner of war during a death march on 13th June, 1945 and is buried in the Labuan War Cemetery

"Your suffering will never be forgotten"

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His father William John NEWLING served during WW1 (5536) and WW 2 (W27457)

Two of his brothers served during WW2

1. Rexford Frank NEWLING (WX8432) died of Malaria whilst a prisoner of war in Thailand on 29th September, 1943

2. Oswald Kitchener NEWLING (WX17438) also died of Illness whilst a prisoner of war on 22nd October, 1943

another brother John Gordon (Jack) NEWLING died in a motor cycle accident in Western Australia on 22nd June 1946