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WILLIAMS, Philip Malcom
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | TX5760, TX5760, |
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Enlisted: | 21 October 1941, Enlisted at Burnie, Tasmania |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Ulverstone, Tasmania, 8 December 1920 |
Home Town: | Preolenna, Waratah/Wynyard, Tasmania |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farm Hand |
Died: | Illness-Pneumonia, Japan, 24 December 1944, aged 24 years |
Cemetery: |
Labuan War Cemetery Plot H, Row D, Grave 8, Labuan War Cemetery, Labuan, Malaysia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, TX5760 | |
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21 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Private, TX5760,, Enlisted at Burnie, Tasmania | |
21 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, TX5760, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
He was rescued from a transport whish was sunk off Sumatra 6 November 1944 and was interred in the Fukuoka Camp, Japan
Medals: 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal