Charles Stanley Jack (Charlie or Chook) RYLANDS

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RYLANDS, Charles Stanley Jack

Service Numbers:	420718, QX7378
Enlisted:	1 May 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 17 December 1919
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Stockman
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 12 September 1965, aged 45 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement 420718, later QX7378 (1/5/1940)
1 May 1940:	Involvement QX7378
1 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX7378, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion
19 Jun 1940:	Embarked 2nd/9th Infantry Battalion, Sydney; disembarked at Liverpool on 30 Jul 1940 - diverted from the Middle East due to the fall of France
27 Aug 1940:	Transferred 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion, originally known as the 71st Infantry Battalion; redesignated in Oct 1940
3 Jan 1941:	Embarked
22 Jul 1942:	Imprisoned officially reported POW 15 Oct 1942; interned Camp 106, then Stalag 8B; returned to UK as recovered POW 22 May 1945
4 Jul 1945:	Embarked UK; disembarked in Sydney, Australia on 8 Aug 1945
5 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX7378, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin

Charles (Charlie) was the only son of Cecil and Florence RYLANDS. One of his two sisters, Dorothy, enlisted in the RAAF and was a Flight Sergeant. Both of his brothers-in-law served in the Australian Army in WW2.

Charlie 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. Charlie was one of 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.

He married in 1946 to Ruby Charlotte ISELIN in Brisbane, Queensland and died in 1965 at age 44.

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