
ZINN, Aubrey Clifford
Service Number: | NX19562 |
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Enlisted: | 1 June 1940, Nyngan, New South Wales |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | 2nd/6th Field Company |
Born: | Cape Town, South Africa, 29 November 1906 |
Home Town: | Nyngan, Bogan, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Seaman |
Died: | Died of Illness (POW of Japan), Borneo, 20 November 1944, aged 37 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Panel 5, Labuan Memorial (within Labuan War Cemetery. |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia |
World War 2 Service
1 Jun 1940: | Enlisted 2nd AIF WW 2, Private, SN NX19562, Nyngan, New South Wales | |
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15 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore | |
20 Nov 1944: | Involvement 2nd AIF WW 2, Sapper, SN NX19562, 2nd/6th Field Company, Prisoners of War |
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Aubrey Clifford ZINN was born in Capetown, South Africa on 29th November, 1906
His parents were Christian & Winifred ZINN
He enlisted in Nyngan , New South Wales on 28th May, 1940
He was a Sapper with the Royal Australian Engineers AIF 2/6 Field Company
He was one of over 2000 Allied Prisoners of War held in the Sandakan POW camp in North Boreno having been transferred there afer being captured in Java, Sapper Zinn, aged 37 died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 20th November, 1944 in Labuan.
Cause of death was Malaria and Beri Beri
He is memoralised in the Labuan Memorial Maylasia , Panel 5