Walter Charles TAYLOR

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TAYLOR, Walter Charles

Service Number:	NX60194
Enlisted:	11 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Bombala, New South Wales, Australia, 26 February 1905
Home Town:	Bombala, Bombala, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness while a POW of the Japanese, Borneo, 8 May 1945, aged 40 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Wagga Wagga Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX60194
11 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX60194

Private Walter Charles Taylor.

Private Walter Charles Taylor, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POW's that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Private Taylor, aged 40, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 8 May 1945. He was the son of John and Mary Ann Taylor, of Ando, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 25. AWM.

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