PALLISTER, Robert
| Service Number: | NX45168 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/10th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | West Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia, 9 October 1902 |
| Home Town: | Morisset, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Male nurse |
| Died: | Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Borneo, 5 June 1945, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: |
Labuan War Cemetery 17. D. 9. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX45168 | |
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| 18 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Private, NX45168, Newcastle, New South Wales | |
| 18 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX45168 | |
| 5 Jun 1945: | Involvement Private, NX45168, 2nd/10th Field Ambulance , Prisoners of War |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"...NX45168 Private Robert Pallister, 2/10th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POW's that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Private Pallister, aged 42, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 5 June 1945. He was the son of John Robert and Esther Ann Pallister, and the husband of Margaret Brown Pallister, of Lambton, NSW." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
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