Ralph Stephen POOLE

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POOLE, Ralph Stephen

Service Number:	NX35707
Enlisted:	25 June 1940, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Albury, New South Wales, Australia, 26 May 1918
Home Town:	Yenda, Griffith, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Truck Driver
Died:	Illness - Avitaminosis whilst POW, Thailand, 14 June 1943, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery 1 K 73
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Griffith Anglican Cathedral Church of St. Alban the Martyr WW2 Honour Roll, Griffith Cenotaph, Yenda WW2 War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX35707
25 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX35707, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion, Wagga Wagga, NSW

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Frederick and Elizabeth Poole, of Nowra, New South Wales, Australia.

BELOVED SON OF MR. & MRS.F.POOLE OF YENDA, N.S.W.

The Area News, 17 July, 1945

Regret was felt by the many friends of the Poole family at the news last Monday of the death, while a prisoner of war in Malaya, on 14th June 1943 of Private Ralph Poole, fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Poole, Griffith, and formerly of Yenda.

Ralph's grave is in Kanchanaburi Cemetery, Siam (now Thailand)

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