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YOUNG, Joseph Sydney
Personal Details
Service Number: | WX8152 |
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Enlisted: | 16 August 1940, Claremont, WA |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/6th Field Park Company |
Born: | Allendale, Victoria, Australia, 5 February 1908 |
Home Town: | Youanmi, Sandstone, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Machine Miner |
Died: | Illness - whilst Prisoner of War, Borneo, 4 April 1945, aged 37 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan War Memorial, Malaysia Panel 7 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bendigo Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Boyup Brook Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sapper, WX8152 | |
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16 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX8152, 2nd/6th Field Park Company, Claremont, WA |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Alfred Sydney and Margaret Young, of Yarra Junction, Victoria.