Allen Ethelbert (Bonnie) POWELL

POWELL, Allen Ethelbert

Service Number: WX8840
Enlisted: 23 October 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Northam, Western Australia, Australia, 26 October 1909
Home Town: Coolgardie, Coolgardie, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Prospector and Road Grader Operator
Died: Dysentery whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Thailand, 6 September 1943, aged 33 years
Cemetery: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Burial reference: - Plot 1. Row L. Grave 66.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, WX8840
23 Oct 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8840
6 Sep 1943: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX8840, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Died of illness whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - Albert Charles Powell and Margaret Wilkins married 23rd February 1903 in Northam, Western Australia, Australia.

Wife: - Lorraine Hattie Small married 1936 in Perth, Western Australia.