Patrick Kyran RUSSELL

RUSSELL, Patrick Kyran

Service Number: VX28829
Enlisted: 3 July 1940
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born: Port Albert, Victoria, Australia , 1 October 1917
Home Town: Gembrook, Cardinia, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Teacher
Died: Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 13 April 1944, aged 26 years
Cemetery: Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
CWGC Grave No: Plot 16. Row A. Grave 16. Inscription: "HE WAS NOBLE BRAVE AND TRUE"
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 VX28829
3 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, VX28829
17 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Ambon, Captured and detained by the Japanese Occupation Force, at Tan Toey (Tantui) Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) Camp, Ambon Island.
13 Apr 1944: Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Member of Gull Force, died on this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese. Nature of death recorded as bacillary dysentery.

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