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ROBERTS, Sydney
Personal Details
Service Number: | QX13600 |
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Enlisted: | 1 July 1940, Kelvin Grove, Qld, Australia |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Leicester, England, 27 June 1902 |
Home Town: | Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Yardsman |
Died: | Illness, (POW of Japan) Sandakan, Borneo, 21 May 1945, aged 42 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Panel 15, Labuan Memorial (within Labuan War Cemetery) Labuan Federal Territory., Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ranau Number 2 Prisoner of War Jungle Camp "The Last Camp Memorial", Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, QX13600, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion | |
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1 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Private, QX13600, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Kelvin Grove, Qld, Australia | |
1 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX13600, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion | |
30 Jul 1941: | Embarked Private, QX13600, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Ship: 30/07/1941, H.M.T E.E., for Singapore - Dissembarked: 23/08/1941. | |
23 Aug 1941: | Involvement Private, QX13600, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore | |
15 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, POW - Prisoner of War: 15/02/1942, (POW of Japan) Died of Illness, 21/05/1945, Sandakan, Borneo. | |
8 Jul 1942: | Embarked Private, QX13600, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Ship: 08/07/1942, "England Maru", (POW of Japanese) "B Force", from Singapore, to Sandakan Camp, Borneo; (NAA, Pg-5). |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daniel Bishop
Son of Francis Edward & Maud Emma ROBERTS.