Soldier profiles

Name : HAMMOND, GORDON
Service Number : VX23296
Date of Birth : 11/11/1913
Place of Birth : PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : KITCHENMAN
Date of Enlistment : 06/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : CARLTON, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : HAMMOND, BEATRICE
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
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 : 13/03/1946
Date Died : ??/??/1965
Age at Death : 52?
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : FAWKNER MEMORIAL PARK 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) : 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-0037 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6226601 [DIGITISED], Barcode 32339059 [OPEN]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Past article (size 225kB)

Background : Cremated at Fawkner Crematorium.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 5 inches, blue eyes, fair complexion, brown hair. Marital status : single. Children : no. Marks / scars : very small scar inner left eyebrow Full time war service : A.I.F. 06/06/1940 to 13/03/1946 which included 2107 days active service (118 days within Australia & 1684 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East and Java areas (embarked from Australia 08/04/1941, disembarked in Australia 16/11/1945). War badge no. A280515. Discharge certificate no. 515151.

Service record
06/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
08/06/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
15/12/1940 Admitted 7 Australian General Hospital Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria with acute tonsillitis.
12/02/1941 Admitted 107 Australian General Hospital Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria for tonsillectomy.
12/02/1941 Admitted to Camp Dressing Station Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
23/02/1941 Discharged to unit.
23/02/1941 Rejoined unit from Camp Dressing Station Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
07/04/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. N.N.).
03/05/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
12/06/1941 Transferred to Pioneer Training Battalion Middle East.
12/06/1941 Marched into Pioneer Training Battalion.
27/06/1941 Marched out to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
28/06/1941 Taken on strength from Pioneer Training Battalion.
19/08/1941 Evacuated to 23 Scottish General Hospital with dysentery and transferred to X list.
20/09/1941 Discharged from 23 Scottish General Hospital and transferred to Pioneer Training Battalion.
20/09/1941 Marched in ex 23 Scottish General Hospital.
10/11/1941 Marched out to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Middle East.
12/11/1941 Taken on strength from Pioneer Training Battalion.
31/01/1942 Embarked Middle East on S.S. Orcades.
18/02/1942 Disembarked Batavia, Java.
07/03/1942 Reported missing in action.
30/04/1942 Reported missing in action, Java and transferred to X list.
30/04/1942 Reported missing in action believed prisoner of war.
04/11/1943 Reported prisoner of war.
22/12/1943 Reported interned in Thailand prisoner of war camp.
29/10/1945 Embarked Singapore on hospital ship S.S. Karoa.
16/11/1945 Disembarked Melbourne, Victoria.
31/01/1946 Admitted 121 Australian General Hospital, South Australia from Recruit Reception & General Details Depot, South Australia for investigation prior to discharge.
08/03/1946 Discharged to Recruit Reception & General Details Depot, South Australia post hookworm infestation.
08/03/1946 Marched into Recruit Reception & General Details Depot, South Australia from 121 Australian General Hospital, South Australia for discharge.
11/03/1946 Transferred out to South Australia Leave and Transit Depot for demobbing.
11/03/1946 Marched in ex South Australia Recruit Reception & General Details Depot.
12/03/1946 Marched out to South Australia Discharge Depot.
12/03/1946 Marched into Discharge Depot from Leave and Transit Depot for discharge.
13/03/1946 Discharged, South Australia.