The Soldier's Details
- Surname:
- Johnston
- First Name:
- Gervase Clifford
- Nick Name:
- Bill
- Rank:
- Pte
- Regimental #:
- WX5300
- Company:
- D Coy 2/3rd MGB
- Enlisted:
- 27.07.1940
- Discharged:
- 1.02.1946
- DOB:
- 9.04.1911
- Place of Birth:
- Bunbury WA
- Father's Name:
- John Forster Johnston
- Mothers's Name:
- Catherine Elizabeth Johnston (nee Hayward)
- Religion:
- C of E
- Pre-war Occupation:
- Farmhand
- Camps Japan:
- Fukuoka 5A Omine
- Japan:
- Java Party 20
- Date of Death:
- 1.10.1976
General Description
Review WX5300 Gervase Johnston‘s military records held at NAA.
Gervase was POW recovered from Omine at the end of the war.
Please read about Java 20 to Japan
Below: Bill is recorded at Fukuoka No. 5 Camp with just a few other West Australians having survived the sinking of POW transport Ship Tamahoko Maru of coast Japan near to Nagasaki June 1944.
Please read further about Tamahoko Maru
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Bill’s parents John ‘Foster’ Johnston m. 13 Jan 1886 at Bunbury to Catherine Elizabeth Hayward. Johnston’s first wife Frances Eleanor Clifton died 1881. Both marriages produced three sons.
John Foster Johnston died 1935 and Catherine died in 1942.
On his return to WA Bill Johnston married Zoe Ruth Forrest, residing in Busselton.
Johnston died 1 Oct 1976 and was buried at Busselton Cemetery.
Below: Bill’s father died 1947
