Gallery
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WX8986 Sgt David HOLM 7 PLATOON 2/4TH MGB
WIA Pasir Panjang 14.2.1942 received GSWs to skull, right hand & legs. Died cerebral abscess 1900 hours on 2.3.1942 aged 24 years. HOLM born England.
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WX7937 Harold George BLAKISTON
Worked Burma-Thai Railway with D Force S Btn
Recovered from Thailand at end of war
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WX9261 John Nicholas CAIMANOS
with 4 brothers played cricket for Elleker, near Albany
worked Burma-Thai Railway with D Force S Btn
Returned Fremantle Oct ’45 HMT Moreton Bay –
John had his share of bashings & illness – Arriving Fremantle fell on gangplank & broke his arm!
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WX9336 JACK GORRINGE
Sent with ‘F’ Force Thailand 1943 to work Burma-Thai Railway
Gorringe for nearly two years, was most senior 2/4th NCO at Changi – placed in change of cookhouse.
Survived to return to Singapore. Younger brother WX9335 Sydney Gorringe worked on Burma-Thai Railway with ‘D’ Force Thailand, S Battalion. Syd’s left leg was amputated below the knee due to a tropical ulcer on 30 Sep1943.
Jack & Syd Gorringe returned to Australia.
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WX7166 HERBERT STANLEY WERRETT
DOW Alexandra Hospital, Singapore 14 Feb 1942 42 Years
Werrett had been listed as missing in action from 11 Feb 1942.
It is a possibility he was at Ulu Pandan.
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KALGOORLIE BORN BROTHERS JACK & RON GREGORY
Enlisted AIF 1940, Jack joined ‘B’ Coy, and Ron ‘A’ Coy
They joined ‘F’ Force Thailand entrained in 1943
Jack died June 1943 Cholera, Shimo SonkuraI & Ron survived to returned to Singapore at end of 1943.
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WX9199 Arthur Ernest FARMER
Captured Java 1942
Worked Burma-Thai Railway with Java Party No 4 Williams Force, Recovered from Thailand at end of war.
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WX9101 Corporal ‘BLACK JACK’ JACK CLIFFORD EWEN
‘A’ Coy, worked Burma-Thai Railway with ‘F;’ Force, Survived to return Singapore. Worked X8 Party Spring 1945 Adam Park Vicinity- building tunnels, funk holes.
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Celebrating Freedom from Japanese occupation
Carnival Scene Singapore 1945
We wish to acknowledge IWM
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2/4th march Anzac Day 2023
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ANZAC March 2023
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2/4th MACHINE GUN BATTALION FAMILIES
MARCHING ANZAC DAY 2023