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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’   
• 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
• 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 
• 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
• AUSTRALIA’S CAMEL CORP WW1 PLEASE READ STORY OF 2/4TH’S  ARTHUR LINDSAY POWELL’S CONNECTION
• 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
• Singapore – Reversal of Roles – Australians & local  population watching Japanese prisoners working
• Following Japan’s Surrender 1945 Roles are reversed – Japanese working Singapore docks lifting concrete blocks to assist in rebuilding the city We acknowledge & thank IWM for photo
• WX9261 CAIMANOS, John Nicholas  Enlisted Oct 1940, joined 2/4th MGB’s ‘B’ Coy 7 Platoon From Elleker on the southern coast of West Australia Worked on the Burma-Thai Raillway  Recovered from Thailand at the end of war
• WX17860 CAIN, Henry David known as Cobber Doonybrook boy ‘Cobber’ Cain was KIA Hill 200, Ulu Pandan 12 Feb 1942 aged 22 years.
• WX13079 Ronald (Ron) Edward ELLIS of Wagin, enlisted 1941, joined 2/4th’s reinforcements. At Singapore Ellis joined ‘D’ Coy’s 16 Platoon. WIA 10 Feb 42 with GSW to right arm & shrapnel wound to his chest. Admitted Australian General Hospital in a badly shocked state, he died 11 Feb aged 21, following an amputation of his arm 2″ below his shoulder joint.  
• WX9419 Harold William (Bill) STEELE of Mundaring enlisted AIF Dec 1940 Later joined 2/4th ‘C Captured Java about 8 March 1942 Worked Burma end of Railway with Java Party No. 4, Williams  Force – re4covered from Kachu Mountain Camp, Thailand at the end of the war