ROWLAND, Lindsay Ebenezer
| Service Number: | VX24175 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Homebush, Victoria, Australia, 27 December 1900 |
| Home Town: | Portland, Glenelg, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died at sea (Montevideo Maru), South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 41 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Portland WW2 Honour Roll, Portland WW2 Memorial, Portland and District St. Stephen's Anglican Church WW2 Supreme Sacrifice Roll of Honor, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, VX24175 | |
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| 8 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX24175, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Lindsay Ebenezer Rowland was a member of the 2/22nd Battalion, part of Lark Force, most of whom were captured at Rabaul, New Britain by the Japanese in January 1942.
He died as one of 1,053 POWs on the unmarked and unescorted Montevideo Maru, when it was sunk by four torpedos fired by the USS Sturgeon shortly after midnight on 1 July 1942 just off Luzon in the Philippines. Of these 1,053 POWs, 845 were soldiers of Lark Force.
At the age of 14 Lindsay's older brother Henry Herbert Rowland was killed in action at Krithia, Cape Helles. When he was 15 another older brother Wesley Richard Rowland was killed in action at Fromelles during 1916.
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