Gallery
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WX8207 Arthur Sidney ‘Snow’ HEWBY
Played 59 WAFL games for Perth Football Club between 1920-1929. He was included in a winning State Team in 1928
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Known as Doc or Pills, Claude Anderson was only doctor with 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion. Departed Singapore with ‘A’ Force May 1942 – 3,000 Australian POWs to work on Burma end of the Railway,
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BARRACK SQUARE, SELARANG (WITH COOK HOUSE)
WITH THANKS TO AWM
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WX7350 George KIDD
b. Newcastle, England 1904
d. illness ‘H’ Force Group No. 3, Kanchanaburi Hospital Camp
24 Oct 1943 aged 37 years.
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Major Charles. E GREEN WX3435 Second in Command to
Commanding Officer 2/4th MGB Lt Col Michael Anketell WX3376, Battalion Headquarters
Lt. Col. C.E. GREEN became Commanding Officer following death of Lt Col Anketell 13 Feb 1942
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WX8532 Wally KENNEY
Boulder born Kenny’s father died Belgium 1917 WW1
He remained Singapore througout war and returned home.
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WX12593 ‘Bomber’ WYLLIE & his wife JOYCE
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Bill Struthers with his family Scotland prior to
Sailing to West Australia
Bill standing centre back
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WX8738 William ‘Bill’ STRUTHERS
sent Ubon POW Camp, Thailand in early 1945
Scottish born Struthers was recovered from here war’s end
(Please read his personal story)
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WX7576 Norman Simmonds
Prior to enlishtment Simmonds was an amateur boxer and wrestler
Known as ‘Bushy Top’
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WX15744 Lesley ‘Les’ Wallace LEE
b. No Man’s Lake, Narrogin 1916
Local Newspaper ‘The Narrogin Observer’ – Dorakin-ToolIbin social pages wrote a meaningful welcome
‘Welcome Home to Les Lee, who has been a
POW of Japan since the Fall of Singapore.
May your shadow never grow less, Les.’
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WX10382 John WARRINGTON
Worked Burma-Thai Railway with ‘D’ Force Thailand T Battalion No. 4 Section under CO W.O.II John Dooley
Recovered from Ubon, Thailand at end of war
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