Malcolm John WARRICK

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WARRICK, Malcolm John

Service Number:	NGX150
Enlisted:	17 July 1940
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit
Born:	Kuridala, Queensland, Australia , 5 April 1912
Home Town:	Rabaul, New Britain, Blanche Bay, Papua New Guinea
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	School Teacher
Died:	Suicide, New Guinea, 13 January 1945, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot PP. Row C. Grave 3. Personal Inscription: - "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE...EVER REMEMBERED '.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lieutenant, NGX150, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit
17 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, NGX150, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, NGX150, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Thomas Warrick married Edith Clamp in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, on 23rd June 1903 when he was 33 years old. Malcolm John Warrick was born on 5 April 1912, his father, Thomas, was 42 and his mother, Edith, was 29. He married Joan Augusta Mary Mallyon on 26th August 1942 in Queensland. Malcolm had already enlisted at Rabaul, New Guinea on 17th July 1940, and was promoted to Lieutenant on 10th July 1944.

Lieutenant Malcolm John Warrick died from gunshot wound to the head (self inflicted). The court of inquiry held in Aitape, New Guinea established that he was under considerable mental stress, and his long service in New Guinea under difficult and primitive circumstances, lacking basic amenities and association with fellow Europeans, would have definitely tended to an abnormal mental outlook and contributing factors to self harm.

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