FENTON, Thomas John
| Service Number: | NX7848 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 November 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 2 |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Yarraville, Victoria, 13 January 1911 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | New South Wales, 1975, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 8 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, NX7848, 2nd/1st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, NX7848, 2nd/1st Infantry Battalion | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Warrant Officer Class 2, NX7848 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Diane Fenton
Thomas John served in the Army during WW2 with the 2/1 Battalion and was a POW in Europe.
He was awarded the Special 25th Anniversary Medallion in 1966 from the Govt of Crete.
Rank WO2, Serv #NX7848. NOK listed as M. Fenton, this was probably Catherine, his first wife, as her middle initial was M.
Thomas was wounded and captured in Greece while serving with the 2/1st Battalion of the Australian Army in 1941. He spent the rest of World War II as a POW and, after his escape, as a fighter with the Greek resistance. After the war Thomas served as an Australian diplomat in Athens during the 1950s and 1960s.
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