Stanley James (Stan) PARSONS

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PARSONS, Stanley James

Service Number:	QX15528
Enlisted:	30 April 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Field Regiment
Born:	Herberton, Queensland, Australia, 18 March 1920
Home Town:	Herberton, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland
Schooling:	Herberton State School, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Natural Causes , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 22 November 1996, aged 76 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

30 Apr 1941:	Involvement QX15528
30 Apr 1941:	Enlisted
30 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX15528, 2nd/10th Field Regiment
6 May 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Reported Wounded and Missing.
25 Sep 1945:	Imprisoned Recovered from the Japanese
3 Dec 1945:	Discharged
3 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX15528, 2nd/10th Field Regiment

Gunner Stanley James Parsons

Gunner (Gnr) Stanley James (Stan) Parsons, 2/10 Field Regiment. Gnr Parsons enlisted in the AIF in North Queensland at the age of 18. He was taken prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese and was notorious for the risks he took scrounging food from the Japanese in Singapore and Thailand. He was later transferred to Japan in a work party.
Courtesy of The Australian War Memorial.

Submitted 20 November 2023 by Lynette Turner

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