Michael John SIMMONS

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Service Number:	NX41012
Enlisted:	10 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/18th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Musswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia, 23 May 1909
Home Town:	Pilliga, Narrabri, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Oxywelder
Died:	Execution, Malaya, 19 February 1942, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Kranji War Cemetery No Known Grave; (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Column 121., Singapore Memorial, Singapore
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Singapore Memorial Kranji War Cemetery

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX41012
3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX41012, 7th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR)
10 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, NX41012, 7th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR)
10 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX41012, 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion
10 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, NX41012, Enlisted at Tamworth
12 Aug 1940:	Transferred Private, 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion, (NAA, Pg-3) Service Record of of Private: Michael John SIMMONS, SN NX41012.
2 Feb 1941:	Embarked Private, NX41012, Embarked the Queen Mary at Sydney for Singapore
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Originally posted as missing but later found to be a POW of the Japanese and had been executed

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Son of William Joseph and Annie Simmons

Medals: 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal, Defence Medal, Australian Service Medal