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WOOD, Albert Lyle
Personal Details
| Service Number: | VX35018 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 July 1940, Royal Park, Vic, Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Moreland, Victoria, 18 June 1915 |
| Home Town: | Elwood, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Died at sea (POW of Japan - Montevideo Maru), South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave; At Sea; (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Panel 28., Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, VX35018 | |
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| 18 Jul 1940: | Involvement Private, VX35018, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore | |
| 18 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Private, VX35018, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Royal Park, Vic, Australia | |
| 18 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX35018, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 15 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore | |
| 22 Jun 1942: | Embarked Private, VX35018, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion, Embarked: 22/06/1942, Japanese Transport Ship: "Montevideo Maru"; with 1 052 POW's, Aus-Mil-845, Civilians-172; at Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Date of Disaster: 01/07/1942 [60-NM - W-Nth-W - Off the Cape of Bojeador, Luzon Is.] "Montevideo Maru", was torpedoed by a USA Submarine - "USS Sturgeon", at 02.29am, in the morning in the South China Sea. |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daniel Bishop
Son of Albert Ernest WOOD & Edith Gertrude (nee ROBERTS) WOOD, of Sandringham, City of Bayside, Victoria, Australia