Soldier profiles

Name : EVA, COLIN STANLEY
Service Number : VX30683
Date of Birth : 02/06/1918
Place of Birth : MIDDLE PARK, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : CLERK
Date of Enlistment : 10/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : RINGWOOD, VIC
Place of Enlistment : ROYAL PARK, VIC
Next of Kin : EVA, PETER
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : SERGEANT
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 : TJILILITAN AERODROME (JAVA)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : N/A
Date Died : 12/09/1944
Age at Death : 26
Community Roll of Honour : UNKNOWN
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : LABUAN MEMORIAL, MALAYSIA. PANEL 19. / AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL COMMEMORATIVE AREA PANEL 72
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) : 12/09/1944 / PRESUMED DROWNED / RAKUYO MARU AT SEA S/W PACIFIC
P.O.W. Camps (details) : THAILAND
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial B-JAVA-0026 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6225751 [DIGITISED], Barcode 9277910 [DIGITISED], Barcode 32518886 [OPEN]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Australian War Memorial, Past article (size 5871kB)

Background : Son of Peter Stanley Eva and Flora Myra Eva, of Canterbury, Victoria. Colin James Mitchell (son of VX22079 Arthur Alan Mitchell (2/2 Pioneer)) named after Colin Eva.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. 26/04/1939 Joined militia as 213489 in unit Melbourne University Rifles at 20 years and 10 months of age before changing to A.I.F. June 1940. Height 5 feet 7 inches, brown eyes, brown hair. Eyesight 6/6 (L) & (R). Weight 178 pounds (80.7 kg). Chest 36 inches. Marks / scars : small scar back of right thigh.

Service record
10/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Royal Park, Victoria.
13/06/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
28/06/1940 Promoted to acting Lance Corporal.
17/07/1940 Promoted to acting Corporal.
07/04/1941 Rank of Corporal confirmed.
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.
14/10/1941 Evacuated to 1 Australian Corps Rest Station with infective hepatitis.
19/10/1941 Discharged from 1 Australian Corps Rest Station and returned to unit.
19/10/1941 Rejoined unit from 1 Australian Corps Rest Station.
01/11/1941 Next of kin change of address.
08/01/1942 Appointed Lance Sergeant.
31/01/1942 Embarked Middle East on S.S. Orcades.
18/02/1942 Disembarked Batavia, Java as part of Blackforce.
03/03/1942 Promoted to acting Sergeant.
03/03/1942 Promoted to Sergeant.
07/03/1942 Reported missing in action, Java.
02/11/1942 Reported missing in action believed prisoner of war. Japanese Radio.
03/11/1942 Previously reported missing in action now reported missing in action believed prisoner of war.
22/08/1943 Previously reported missing in action believed prisoner of war now reported prisoner of war.
08/12/1943 Now interned Thailand camp.
22/12/1943 Transferred to Thailand camp.
28/10/1944 Now reported missing believed drowned on or after 12/09/1944.
24/02/1945 Tokyo confirms above entry.
10/11/1945 Previously missing now for official purposes presumed deceased.
11/12/1945 Now reported missing 12/09/1944 and for official purposes presumed dead.