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PEPPER, Cyril John
Service Number: | WX8948 |
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Enlisted: | 25 October 1940 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Busselton, Western Australia , 16 May 1915 |
Home Town: | Northam, Northam, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Illness, Hollywood Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, 26 August 1943, aged 28 years |
Cemetery: |
Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia Plot J. Row B. Gravesite 8. |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Capel War Memorial, Darling Range Road District Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX8948 | |
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25 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX8948, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Cyril, known as Sonny or Blue, was the only son of Alfred and Amy and the second of their five children. One of his sisters, Mona, served in the AWAS (W45573).
Cyril was a POW on board the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. He was one of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident. He died in hospital two weeks after returning home to WA.
He is listed on the war memorial in Capel, his mother's hometown.