Ernest Edward WRIGHT

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Service Number:	QX16398
Enlisted:	15 July 1940, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Proserpine, Queensland, Australia, 29 December 1906
Home Town:	Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Cause of death - not known, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 29 September 1992, aged 85 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Queensland Garden of Remembrance (Pinnaroo), Qld

15 Jul 1940:	Involvement QX16398
15 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, QX16398, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
15 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX16398, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
15 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Reported, as per stated: 15/02/1942, Missing, further declared P.O.W Prisoner of War, to surrender of Japanese Forces - Date: 10/09/1945, at the Surrender Point Memorial-Labuan Federal Territory-Labuan, Malaysia.
11 Jan 1946:	Discharged Private, QX16398, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion, Date & Posting at Discharge: 11/01/1946; Unit: 2nd/26th Australian Infantry Battalion; NAA Service Record of Private: Ernest Edward WRIGHT; SN QX16398.
11 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX16398, 2nd/26th Infantry Battalion

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Son of George William WRIGHT & Lily (nee-ABEL) WRIGHT.

Marriage: Edna May (nee-MATZKOW) WRIGHT - 30th October 1947 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.