ROONEY, John Clarence
| Service Number: | NX40488 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Narrabri, New South Wales, 8 December 1919 |
| Home Town: | Narrabri, Narrabri, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Narrabri Public School |
| Occupation: | Shop assistant |
| Died: | Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Thailand, 16 October 1943, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) A7 A 5 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 25 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Private, NX40488, Tamworth, New South Wales | |
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| 25 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX40488 | |
| 26 Jun 1940: | Involvement Private, NX40488 | |
| 23 Dec 1941: | Promoted Corporal | |
| 16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore | |
| 16 Oct 1943: | Involvement Corporal, NX40488, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Prisoners of War |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Vicki Owens
Son of Ernest Athol ROOONEY and Eva May nee FISK
He was a shop assistant for A.E. Collins, Narrabri, NSW
Captured in the fall of Singapore in 1942 and died of Malaria as POW
Survived by his parents and brother Clifford and sister Thelma Boland.
May 1943 - Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Rooney, of Narrabri, have received advice from the Minister for the Army that their son, Corporal Jack Rooney, previously reported missing, is now reported a prisoner
of war interned in a Thailand camp.
August 1944 - Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Rooney of Maitland Street, Narrabri, yesterday received word from the Minister for the Army that their son, Corporal Jack Rooney, had died of illness, on October 16, 1943, while a prisoner of war in Japanese hands.
The Minister expressed deep regret at the receipt of the news.
The late Corporal Rooney was 24 years of age. He left his occupation as shop assistant with Messrs. A. E. Collins, Narrabri, to join the Army in May, 1940. The last advice received from him was a card dated April 1943; arriving November, 1943.
Jack was born and educated at Narrabri. He sailed with the Eighth Division when it left Australian waters on the "Queen Mary," February, 1941. Nothing further was heard of him for 15 months after the fall of Singapore until he was officially stated to be a prisoner of war at Moulmein, Burma.
He is survived by a brother, Cliff, and sister, Mrs. E. Boland, "Couradda," Bellata.
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