Gallery

• WX16427 Pte Donald Charles ROBERTSON ‘B’ Coy 8 Platoon Reinforcement ‘A’ Force Burma Java Party No. 4, Williams Force Worked Burma end of Burma-Thai Railway Recovered Tamarkan, Thailand at end of war
• Lance Sergeant WX8174 Daniel Martin O’LEARY b. Kalgoorlie 1910 Enlisted AIF Aug 1940 – joined ‘A’ Coy, 4 Platoon.  Sent to work Burma-Thai Railway ‘F’ Force Thailand Died Malaria & Dysentery following leg amputation Kami Sonkurai 14 Nov 1943 aged 33 years  
• WX8681 Pte Roy William DAVEY Enlisted AIF Oct 1920 – Joined 2/4th’s ‘A’ Coy 8 Platoon Sent to Burma-Thai Railway with ‘D’ Force Thailand, S Battalion to Hellfire Pass region – evacuated sick to Tarsau Hospital Camp – died of illness 1 July 1943 aged 28 years
• WX18170 Pte Stanley Raymond HICKEY Born Narrogin 1921 Worked on Burma-Thai Railway with Captain Harris Party Selected with ‘Both’ Party – sailed as far as Saigon, French Indo-China from where he worked as a POW – recovered at end of war.    
• Pre-war photo Les Pitts WX7626 Pte A.L. Pitts, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion
• From The Western Mail – Sons of Empire 2 APRIL 1942 WX16347 Wilfred ‘Neville’ MATSON, Katanning Enlisted underage aged 17 years Worked on Burma-Thai Railway with ‘D’ Force V Battalion Recovered from Thailand at the end of War.  
• Memorial to Kranji Beach Battle 1942
• Russian soldiers Manchuria 1945 – there were several POW Camps Manchuria. 2/4th’s Jim Clancy moved to Hoten (12 miles from Mukden) from 21 Nov 42 to end of war.  He was injured during an air raid before his recovery.  Please read about Jim Clancy   US General Wainwright  was imprisoned Manchuria.  On  27 August he departed departed by air with all VIPs.   Most POWs were entrained from Mukden to port of Darien, boarding US Navy ships, hospital ship USS Relief & transport USS Colbert, for evacuation to Okinawa.  Following arrival of US Recovery team, Clancy was entrained to Port Arthur  then to USN Refuge & Noble to Manila. Please read Mansell website
• Ron Moran – died of starvation/ illness Sandakan 3 days after turning 21 years on 28 June 1945.  Ron was youngest 2/4th boy sent to Sandakan with ‘B’ & ‘E’ Force from Singapore.
• WX224 John (Jack) MacDonald believed KIA 9 Feb 42 Ama Keng Village with ‘D’ Force 15 Platoon McDonald and his sister Florence never knew their father was executed WWI with British Forces for desertion.  He was one of three soldiers made an example of by high ranking British officers.   Please read further about this tragedy.  
• 1955 Kwinana RSL Sub-Group opening day Bryan Manwaring standing slightly right of centre
• 2/4th Country Reunion Popanyinning Hotel Date unknown – Hotel burnt down 9 July 1978. Do you recognise anybody???? Popanyinning is half way between Pingelly and Cuballang.