John Ernest (Jack) TREGENZA

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TREGENZA, John Ernest

Service Number:	WX9325
Enlisted:	30 October 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Dangin, Western Australia, Australia, 1 October 1914
Home Town:	Dangin, Quairading, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Dysentery whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Thailand, 2 September 1943, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot 1. Row L. Grave 50. Personal Inscription: - "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Quairading Memorial Pool, Quairading Memorial Wall, Quairading War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, WX9325
30 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX9325
30 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX9325, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia and after basic training taken on strength with 2/4 MGB.
2 Sep 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, WX9325, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Died from illness.

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Private John Ernest Tregenza's father, James Montague Tregenza moved from Timaru, New Zealand to Western Australia before 1906. In 1906 at Plantagenet, Western Australia he meet and married Mary Jane Brown and they took up farming on land in the Dangin area. John Ernest (Jack) Tregenza was the youngest son in a large family including twin sisters.

John (Jack) Tregenza enlisted 30th August 1940 in Claremont, Western Australia along with his brother Frederick Thomas Tregenza (WX9280), Fred was killed in action on the 9th February 1942 in the Battle of Singapore. Jack became a prisoner of war and eventually was selected to work on Burma-Thailand Railway, Sergeant John Ernest Tregenza Brankassi died on 2nd September 1943 at Brankassi PoW Camp and was buried in the camp's cemetery grave no. 54. On 12th February 1946 it was established and verified that he had been verbally promoted to sergeant during the downfall of Singapore, and his promotion was affirmed from 11th February 1942.

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