Hector Jenkin PHILIPSON

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PHILIPSON, Hector Jenkin

Service Number:	QX11301
Enlisted:	8 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Proserpine, Queensland, Australia, 17 May 1917
Home Town:	Proserpine, Whitsunday, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Illness, Thailand, 8 November 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) A13 A 7
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Proserpine Cenotaph, Proserpine War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, QX11301
8 Jul 1940:	Enlisted
8 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX11301, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Townsville, Qld.
8 Nov 1943:	Discharged

PTE HECTOR JENKIN PHILIPSON

Advice has been received of the death from illness of Pte. Hector Jenkins Philipson on 8th November, 1943, whilst a prisoner of war in Siam. He was 28 years of age.
Pte. Philipson who was the youngest son of Mr. & Mrs. N.C. Philipson of Bowen Road, Proserpine, enlisted from Proserpine. He left Australia for active service with the 2/26th Battalion, 8th Division. A native of Proserpine, he attended the state rural school after which he assisted his father on the farm. He was a Proserpine representative footballer.

Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of Nicholas George PHILIPSON and Ethel nee TABOR, of Proserpine, Queensland, Australia.

SADLY MISSED BY LOVING FATHER & MOTHER, BROTHERS ARCHIE & ARTHUR

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