Henry (Bill) WHITTON

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Service Number:	WX4758
Enlisted:	23 June 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Perth, Western Australia, 11 October 1906
Home Town:	Maylands, Bayswater, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carrier
Died:	Prisoner of War - Executed, Java, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 30 April 1942, aged 35 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Column 134, Singapore Memorial (within Kranji War Cemetery)., 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, WX4758, 4th Field Artillery Brigade
23 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, WX4758
23 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, WX4758, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, Perth, WA, Australia
13 Aug 1940:	Transferred Private, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, (NAA, Pg-9) Service Record of Private: Henry WHITTON, SN WX4758.
9 Sep 1940:	Promoted Lance Corporal, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, (NAA, Pg-9) Service Record of Lance Corporal: Henry WHITTON, SN WX4758.
27 Jan 1942:	Promoted Sergeant, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, (NAA, Pg-10) Service Record of Sergeant: Henry WHITTON, SN WX4758.
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore

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