WITT, Kenneth Charles
Service Number: | NX58548 |
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Enlisted: | 10 July 1940 |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | Supply Depot Companies / Platoons |
Born: | Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, Australia, 10 December 1917 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Borneo, 29 April 1945, aged 27 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan Memorial, Labuan, Malaysia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Crows Nest Presbyterian Church WW2 Book of Remembrance |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sergeant, NX58548 | |
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10 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Sergeant, NX58548, Supply Depot Companies / Platoons, Paddington, NSW | |
10 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, NX58548 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Charles Vincent Witt and Margaret Ann Witt, of Wollstonecraft, New South Wales
WITT -April 29 1945 died in P.O.W. camp, Sandakan Borneo NX5B518 Sgt Kenneth Charles Witt, 2nd A. A. S. C. Coy Btn Div, dearly beloved only son of Mr and Mrs Charles V. Witt Wollstonecroft and brother of Dorothy, Joyce and Hazel beloved friend of Margaret Sturrock and brother-in-law of Raymond G. Morris and S Garfield Thomson. Melbourne and Hobart papers please copy.