WILSON, Ronald Matthew
| Service Number: | WX8438 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 October 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, 30 December 1910 |
| Home Town: | Cottesloe, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Hale School |
| Occupation: | Estate Agent |
| Died: | Died whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Borneo, 25 December 1944, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Panel 18, Labuan Memorial (within Labuan War Cemetery). |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia, Wembley Downs Hale School Honour Roll 2, Wembley Downs Hale School Memorial Grove |
World War 2 Service
| 18 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Private, WX8438, Claremont, Western Australia | |
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| 18 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, WX8438, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 25 Dec 1944: | Involvement Staff Sergeant, WX8438, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Prisoners of War |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"...WX8438 Sergeant Ronald Matthew Wilson, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. 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. Sergeant Wilson, aged 35, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 25 December 1944. He was the son of Matthew and Marian Reva Wilson, of Cottesloe, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 18..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
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