Gallery
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WX6506 Eric FRASER’s son-in-law Noel Bell with
his daughter Shayna and grandson Aiden.
Shayna & Aiden marched Anzac Day
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WX8525 Ian David ‘Pop’ HEPPINGSTONE
Rangetaker ‘C’ Coy 12 Platoon
Please read Pop’s memories of Camps on Burma-Thai Railway
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WX9261 John (Jack) Nicholas Caimanos
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WX10609 Sgt John Verdun ‘Des’ COLEVAS
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DES COLEVAS, formerly WX10609 Sgt John Verdun Colevas of 2/4th MGB
Served Korea: Seated 2nd from Left
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WX148340 Standish O’Grady HALY
Enlisted AIF 3 July 1941, later joined 2/4th MGB’s ‘C’ Coy as a Driver, Born 1916 Toowong Queensland Haly died North Borneo 15 June 1945 aged 39 years 12 miles from Sandakan POW Camp, at Sandakan Estate
Please read further about ‘B’ Force Borneo, Sandakan
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17 June 1921 West Australian Newspaper Page 6 Late Sporting
FOOTBALL
LEAGUE TEAM
Perth v South Fremantle, at Fremantle –
Perth will be selected from
Hewby (capt), Uren, Hewson, Gaynor,
Shacklock, Rowe, Corser, Menzies,
Evans, Love, M’Auliffe, Ingle,
Watts (2), Holl, McKenna, Bradshaw,
Jones, Oliver, Exley and McCamish.
Players are requested to catch the
1.30 train ex Perth.
Would League Players catch a train today?
WX8207 HEWBY, Arthur Sidney ‘Snow’
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This ring was found 1945 on a POW’s body dressed in a little fabric called a ‘Jap’ happy’.
The ring is inscribed with initials J R
Found on Sandakan-Ranau between Belarun & Sandakan
Please read our quest to find the family of this POW
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WX9554 Arthur Lindsay Roy POWELL
born Northampton 1918 to Arthur Powell & Clara Evelyn Trenaman
Named after his uncle KIA 1918 Palestine, with Camel Corp WW1
Please read further about Powell & his Uncles life in the Desert
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Australia’s WW1 Camel Corp
2/4th’s Arthur Lindsay Powell was named after his uncle who was KIA Camel Corps Palestine 1918
Please read our story of Desert Life & Camels WW1
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AUSTRALIA’S CAMEL CORP WW1
PLEASE READ STORY OF 2/4TH’S ARTHUR LINDSAY POWELL’S CONNECTION
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WX7504 CHAPMAN, DESMOND BRUCE
known as Bruce or Bluey
died following 2nd amputation below knee for ankle ulcer
11 Sep 1943 at Konkhan Hospital Camp, Burma same day as WX5050 John Arthur Briggs