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SAUNDERS, Vincent Charles

Service Number:	VX61819
Enlisted:	17 August 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Devonport, Tasmania, Australia, 18 May 1914
Home Town:	Brunswick East, Moreland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness (Beri Beri) Whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, POW Camp Tan Toey Galala, Ambon, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 22 June 1945, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia 17. B. 9.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX61819
17 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX61819
13 Dec 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX61819, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Darwin
2 Feb 1942:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX61819, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Reported Missing
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned by Japanese Military Forces

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