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PARSONS, Stanley James
Personal Details
Service Number: | QX15528 |
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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 |
Service History
World War 2 Service
30 Apr 1941: | Involvement QX15528 | |
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30 Apr 1941: | Enlisted | |
30 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (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 (WW2) , Private, QX15528, 2nd/10th Field Regiment |
Personal Stories
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