Ronald Miles (Ron) SHEA

SHEA, Ronald Miles

Service Number: TX3835
Enlisted: 9 July 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born: Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia, 18 August 1914
Home Town: King Island, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia, 10 August 1976, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Mersey Vale Memorial Park Cemetery, Tasmania
Location L7 Row L Plot 1 Plaque
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

9 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3835, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
22 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Captured by the Japanese on Timor, repatriated to Batavia.
14 Feb 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX3835, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown: Involvement Private, TX3835

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Biography contributed by Graham Padget

POW Timor - Java.  August 1943