Gallery
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WX17759 John (Jack) Scott LIVINGSTON 2/4th MGB E’ Coy No. 1 Platoon under CO Lt Harry Green.
He was previously with 10th Light Horse at Mt Helena.
Livingstone survived Japanese ambush at Bukit Timah which claimed so many lives of SRB on 11 Feb 1942 in Singapore.
He worked on Burma Thai Railway with ‘D’ Force Thailand S Battalion – tragically died of illness Sept 1943 at Tarsau Hospital Camp aged 21 years.
He had been evacuated from the Line.
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WX7499 RALPH THOMAS WILLIAMS played Hockey for Fremantle Club and Football for Palmyra
Member of ‘D’ Coy 15 Platoon sent to defend Singapore’s north-west Coast where the Japanese first crossed the Straits in huge numbers, Williams survived the battle, working on Burma-Thai Railway to return home to WA,
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WX9277 TOM BEARD of Northam, D Coy
with brother Robert Beard
Suffered shrapnel injuries night of Japanese invasion 8 Feb 1942
Worked on Burma end of Railway, evacuated with tropical ulcer
Beard survived to be recovered from Thailand at end of war.
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(WX7889) Pte John (Jack) ISAAC enlisted from Collie
joined No. 2 Platoon under CO Lt Royce
Departed Singapore 1942 with ‘A’ Force Green Force No. 3 Btn to work Burma end of Burma-Thai Railway. Survived to be recovered from Thailand at end of war.
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Formerly WX8327 Corp. Charles Henry Ironmonger
‘C’ Coy HQ – remained POW Singapore throughout war.
Recovered from Changi
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WX6623 Dave THOMAS of Brisbane Street, Perth had been working as a butcher when he enlisted AIF 1940.
He was taken POW at Singapore with 2/4th MGB & left with first Japanese work party to work in Burma on Burma-Thai Railway. Thomas lost his life when his Japanese transport ship was sunk by US Submarines Sept 1944 in South China Sea. Dave was 24 years of age.
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Bill & Lorna Haywood
WX9175 William Thomas HAYWOOD, ‘S’ Coy, survived working Burma end of Burma-Thai Railway, selected by Japanese to work Japan, ‘Awa’ Maru to Japan 1944 to Fukuoka sub-Camp No 17
Returned to Australia
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WX11744 George Willimott & brother WX11745 James ‘Jim’ Willimott were Fitters with 88 Light Aid Detachment.
George died June 43 dysentery Thanbyuzyayat Hospital Camp, Burma aged 32 years & Jim died with ‘F’ Force of dysentery at Kanchanaburi Hospital Camp, Thailand Dec 1943 aged 39 years. Both men were working on Burma-Thai Railway and were evacuated to Hospital Camps.
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Jack STREET WX9178 (Right)
with his father William Street, KIA Buona Vista Singapore, 15 Feb 1942 aged 30 years.
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Mrs Glad Cowie widow of late Harold Cowie WX8641
Celebrating her 100th birthday 5 November 2023 with daughters Faye and Gail.
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