Harry LUCAS

LUCAS, Harry

Service Number: WX13752
Enlisted: 28 May 1941
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Windsor, England, 11 October 1919
Home Town: Bridgetown, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Farm hand
Died: Natural causes, Albany, Western Australia, 19 September 2000, aged 80 years
Cemetery: Allambie Park Cemetery, Albany, Western Australia
CY 1282
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

28 May 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, WX13752, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
28 May 1941: Enlisted Private, WX13752, Claremont, Western Australia
29 May 1941: Involvement Private, WX13752
12 Feb 1942: Wounded Private, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Malaya/Singapore, Wounded at Ulu Pandan, GSW (left thigh)
15 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Taken Prisoner by the Japanese during 'The Fall of Singapore'
17 May 1946: Discharged Lance Corporal, WX13752, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
17 May 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, WX13752, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by Paul Trevor

'WX13752, LUCAS Harry. ‘A’ Coy. Driver/mechanic. Selelcted in Singapore with ‘A’ Force Burma Green Force, No. 3 Battalion to work on the Burma-Thai Railway. From Tamarkan Camp Thailand, he was deemed fit and selected to go to Japan to work with ‘Awa Maru’ Party and worked at Fukuoka sub-Camp No. 17 Omuta, from where he was recovered at the end of the war.' LINK (2nd4thmgb.com.au)

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