Oliver Moir STANWELL

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Service Number:	WX7789
Enlisted:	10 August 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Moora, Western Australia, Australia , 24 July 1905
Home Town:	Port Hedland, Port Hedland, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Shop Assistant & Truck Driver
Died:	Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 12 March 1945, aged 39 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan War Memorial, Malaysia Panel 18
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, WX7789
10 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, WX7789, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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Oliver Moir STANWELL was born in Moora, Western Australia on 24th July, 1905

His parents were Richard Arthur STANWELL & Rachel IFFLA

He married Marjorie Irene KENSELL in Bayswater, WA in 1940

Oliver died from malaria whilst a prisoner of war of the Japanese on 12th March, 1945

IN MEMORY