Douglas Thomas BARKER

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Service Number:	QX18114
Enlisted:	14 May 1941, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 8 November 1919
Home Town:	Bollon, Balonne Shire, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Illness, (POW of Japan) Borneo, 7 June 1945, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" (CWGC) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Panel 15, Labuan Memorial (within Labuan War Cemetery) Labuan Federal Territory. Roll of Honour: Leichardt, New South Wales.,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bollon War Memorial, Bollon and District Honour Roll WW2, Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, QX18114
14 May 1941:	Involvement Private, QX18114, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore
14 May 1941:	Enlisted Private, QX18114, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
14 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX18114, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, POW-Prisoner of War: 15/02/1942, to Date of Death: 07/06/1945, Died of Illness-Borneo (Sandakan Camp).

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2nd/26th Australian Infantry Battalion

Rank - Private

Son of Joseph William and Florence May Barker, of Chatswood, New South Wales.