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• WX16407 LACEY GIBBS OF WANNEROO WAS 12 MONTHS YOUNGER THAN BROTHER ‘JIMMY’  LACEY SURVIVED INIITIAL SINKING OF ‘RAKUYO’ MARU CLINGING ONTO LIFE RAFT FOR TWO DAYS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA, HE SUCCUMBED TO FATIGUE AND THIRST.  LACEY SLIPPED AWAY ON 14 SEPT 1944 AGED 27 YEARS
• WX8958 ‘JIMMY’ GIBBS and BROTHER WX16407 LACEY GIBBS from WANNEROO PERISHED IN SOUTH CHINA SEA when their POW TRANPORT SHIP ‘RAKUYO’ MARU WAS TOPEDOED SEPT 1944
• AIF CHRISTMAS CARD 1941 POSTED TO GIBBS FAMILY, WANNEROO BY SON  WX8958 ‘JIMMY’ GIBBS – WHO PERISHED WITH HIS BROS. WHE ‘RAKUYO’ MARU SANK SOUTH CHINA SEA SEPT 1945
• 2/4th Anzac Day – possibly Fairbridge Farm, Pinjarra
• RSLWA president with 2/4th ‘Boys’ c 2015/2016 Dimopoulos, Dunnell, Ridgwell, Holding, Badock
• WX16274 Fred Whitacker b. 1907 England  d. Dysentery Hindaine POW Camp, Burma-Thai Railway Aug 1943 aged 36 years
• ANZAC DAY MARCH c 1970
• WX17595 Dunnell Norman Lenard (Bob) Was recovered from Fukuoka sub-Camp No. 17 Omuta, Japan Worked on Burma-Thai Railway with ‘D’ Force Thailand, V Btn        
• WX8174 L/CORP DANIEL ‘DAN’ MARTIN O’LEARY b. 1910 KALGOORLIE  d. illness & leg amputation Kami Sonkurai, Thailand ‘F’ Force  14 Nov 1943 aged 33 years  
• Chris McLennan – Training Lancelin 1941