Soldier profiles
Name : GOODMAN, REGINALD GEORGE
Service Number : VX15713
Date of Birth : 14/09/1907
Place of Birth : POREPUNKAH, VIC
Known as : REG
Occupation on Enlistment :
Date of Enlistment : 27/05/1940
Locality on Enlistment : SEYMOUR, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : GOODMAN, ALICE
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : SIGNALMAN
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : SYRIA, JAVA
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 30/05/1946
Date Died : 14/03/1995
Age at Death : 87
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : SPRINGVALE BOTANICAL CEMETERY, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : YES
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : JAVA, TANYONG PAGAR (SINGAPORE)
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : YES
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial B-JAVA-0033 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6203568 [NOT EXAMINED], Barcode 1033128 [NOT EXAMINED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, C_HAMLEY_1.jpg, C_HAMLEY_2.jpg, Past article (size 291kB), L_BOROMEO_11.jpg
Background : Repatriated to Australia on H.M.A.S. Manunda.
Service record
27/05/1940 Enlisted, then to Middle East in operations Palestine and Syria with 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion then to Pacific in operations Java against the Japanese with 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion.
06/03/1942 Missing in Action, Java.
19/01/1943 Reported as P.O.W. on Japanese Radio. Interned Java.
15/09/1945 Recorded alive in Tanyong Pagar, Singapore.
