Cyril John (Sonny) PEPPER

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PEPPER, Cyril John

Service Number:	WX8948
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
25 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8948, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion

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Biography 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.

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