Eric Lincoln PREEDY

PREEDY, Eric Lincoln

Service Number: WX7416
Enlisted: 6 August 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Subiaco, Western Australia, 5 July 1913
Home Town: Perth, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Truck driver
Died: Died of Illness (POW of Japan - acute enteritis), Brankassi, Thailand, 7 August 1943, aged 30 years
Cemetery: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
1. H. 11.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Subiaco Fallen Soldiers Memorial
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World War 2 Service

6 Aug 1940: Enlisted Private, WX7416, Claremont, Western Australia
6 Aug 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX7416, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
1 Jan 1942: Involvement Private, WX7416, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Malaya/Singapore
16 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
7 Aug 1943: Involvement Private, WX7416, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Prisoners of War

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