BRACKEN, Clyde Noel
| Service Number: | NX73099 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, 28 July 1918 |
| Home Town: | Coonabarabran, Warrumbungle Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Prisoner of War, Borneo, 13 April 1945, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" LABUAN MEMORIAL Panel 12. Malaysia |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia |
World War 2 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, NX73099 , 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kerry Shooks
Description
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX73099 Private Clyde Noel Bracken, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Private Bracken, aged 23, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 13 April 1945. He was the son of Herbert Henry and Ethel Ann Bracken, of Coonabarabran, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 10. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
Biography contributed by Kerry Shooks
Private Clyde Noel Bracken is found and Maintained by: K A Shooks
Originally Created by: International Wargraves Photography Project
Find A Grave No. 20344572 along with his family
Added by K A Shooks
Biography contributed by Gary Hockley
Son of Samuel and Lillian Boyd, of Leichhardt, New South Wales.
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