Bradford PASCOE-PEARCE

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PASCOE-PEARCE, Bradford

Service Numbers:	NX107764, NX71989
Enlisted:	11 October 1938
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Anti Tank aka Tank Attack Regiment
Born:	Stanmore, New South Wales, Australia, 10 January 1909
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Granville Public & Fort St High Schools, Sydney
Occupation:	Salesman
Died:	Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese, Borneo, 15 August 1945, aged 36 years
Cemetery:	Labuan War Cemetery Grave Reference Plot S, Row D, Grave 8
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

11 Oct 1938:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), NX107764, 7th Infantry Battalion
25 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), NX71989
29 Apr 1941:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned
15 Aug 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, NX71989, 2nd/4th Anti Tank aka Tank Attack Regiment

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Bradford PASCOE-PEARCE was born in Stanmore, NSW on 10th January, 1909

His parents were Edward PASCOE-PEARCE & Catherine Elizabeth POLGLASE who married in Victoria in 1882

He married Kathleen Phyllis LEMMON in Sydney in 1940

He first enlisted with the Army on 11th October, 1938 (SN 107764) and was discharged on request (7th Infantry Battalion) and later joined the 2nd/4th Anti Tank Regiment of the Royal Australian Artillery (SN NX71989)

Bradford died of Illness in Borneo whilst a Prisoner of War at Sandakan and is buried in the Labuan War Cemetery

Inscription: "FOREVER REMEMBERED AND LOVED BY ALL"

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His brother Harcourt PASCOE-PEARCE (SN N319596) also served during WW2 in the Volunteer Defence Corp and was discharged in 1945

Another brother Maxwell PASCOE-PEARCE (SN NX3928) died of Illness in Germany during WW2 on 15th March, 1945 (2nd/1st Field Ambulance) He was also a Prisoner of War

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