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FRASER, James Fitzgerald
Personal Details
Service Number: | QX11231 |
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Enlisted: | 3 July 1940 |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Proserpine, Qld, Australia, 10 September 1916 |
Home Town: | Proserpine, Whitsunday, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Proserpine, Qld, Australia, 27 February 1999, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Proserpine Cemetery, Qld Lawn - Row L. |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Sandakan Prisoner of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Jul 1940: | Involvement Private, QX11231, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion | |
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3 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX11231, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion | |
3 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Private, QX11231, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion | |
1 Sep 1940: | Promoted Corporal, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, (NAA, Pg-7) | |
14 Oct 1940: | Promoted Sergeant, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, (NAA, Pg-7) | |
30 Jul 1941: | Embarked Sergeant, QX11231, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Ship: 30/07/1941, "HMT E.E"; (NAA, Pg-8) | |
5 Aug 1941: | Promoted Corporal, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Promotion (Reverted back to): 05/08/1941, [Cpl] Corporal; (NAA, Pg-8) | |
23 Aug 1941: | Involvement Corporal, QX11231, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore, (NAA, Pg-8) | |
12 Jan 1942: | Promoted Sergeant, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Promoted: 12/01/1942, [appt., Sgt] appointed Sergeant; (NAA, Pg-8) | |
15 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, POW - Prisoner of War: 15/02/1942, Fall of Singapore, Allied Forces surrendered to the Japaneses Forces; to Date: 15/08/1945, Japanese surrendered to the Allied Forces, Malaya/Singapore Campaign. | |
16 Feb 1942: | Promoted Lieutenant, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, (NAA, Pg-8) | |
16 Aug 1945: | Involvement Lieutenant, QX11231, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore | |
14 Feb 1946: | Discharged Lieutenant, QX11231, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion | |
14 Feb 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX11231, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion | |
Date unknown: | Honoured Member of the Order of the British Empire, Malaya/Singapore |
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