ROSS, Noel Dudley
| Other Name: | Ross, Dudley Noel |
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| Service Number: | QX2880 |
| Enlisted: | 4 March 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/13th Field Company / Squadron RAE |
| Born: | Dalby, Queensland, Australia, 6 November 1914 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bridge Contractor |
| Died: | Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 27 September 1989, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bundaberg General Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 4 Mar 1940: | Involvement Lance Sergeant, QX2880 | |
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| 4 Mar 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, QX2880 | |
| 4 Mar 1940: | Enlisted | |
| 5 May 1940: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 2nd/1st Field Park Company, Sydney; admitted to ship's hospital 5 Jun 1940 (rubella); disembarked Scotland 17 Jun 1940 | |
| 15 Aug 1940: | Promoted Lance Corporal, 2nd/13th Field Company / Squadron RAE | |
| 14 Nov 1940: | Embarked 2nd/13th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Liverpool; disembarked Middle East on 29 Dec 1940; appointed acting Corporal 11 Jan 1941 and then acting Lance Sergeant 17 Jul 1941 | |
| 5 Aug 1941: | Imprisoned Siege of Tobruk, wounded in action prior to capture; interned Stalag 8B, then Stalag 344 and Camp 57 | |
| 19 May 1945: | Embarked Liverpool as recovered POW; disembarked in Sydney, Australia 17 Jun 1945 | |
| 8 Feb 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, QX2880 | |
| 8 Feb 1946: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Noel was the fourth of 10 children born to Harold and Beatrice ROSS, who married in New South Wales in 1908. Three of his six brothers also enlisted.
Noel's Queensland birth registration (1913/C/3463) indicates he was born in 1913, not in November 1914 as he claimed on enlistment in 1940. He wrote his age as 25 years, then crossed 25 out and wrote 24.
Noel was a POW on board the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Norman was one of 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
He married in 1945 in Redfern, New South Wales, to Mary Jane WRIGHT and died in 1989 at age 75.
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