Soldier profiles
Name : O'NEILL, THOMAS ERIC
Service Number : VX22726
Date of Birth : 09/06/1916
Place of Birth : COFFS HARBOUR, NSW
Known as : TOM
Occupation on Enlistment : LABOURER, WOODCUTTER
Date of Enlistment : 05/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : MILDURA, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : O'NEILL, A
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) : D COMPANY (SYRIA)
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : SYRIA, JAVA
Actions : DAMOUR (SYRIA)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 13/12/1945
Date Died : N/A
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
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) : JAVA
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : NO
P.O.W. Camps (details) : THAILAND
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : THAILAND
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial B-JAVA-0067 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6227603 [OPEN]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, D_O_NEILL_1.jpg, M_MONAGHAN_1.jpg, M_MONAGHAN_2.jpg, AWM_008605.jpg, Past article (size 286kB), Past article (size 247kB), Past article (Sunraysia Daily), Past article (Sunraysia Daily), Past article (size 579kB)
Background : Brother of VX22727 W. J. O'Neill (2/2 Pioneer). Repatriated to Australia on Moreton Bay. 'THEN' photo taken in February 1941. 'RECENT' photo is of Tom (left) taken with Governor General Mike Jeffery at the P.O.W. Memorial dedication in Ballarat February 2004. Was a house painter after the war.
