Soldier profiles

Name : BROES, JOSEPH
Service Number : VX41006
Date of Birth : 07/07/1910
Place of Birth : LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : BOILERMAKER
Date of Enlistment : 25/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : LINTON, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : BROES, ALICE
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 : 03/12/1945
Date Died : 21/11/1949
Age at Death : 39
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : LINTON CEMETERY, 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-0011 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6127933 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Past article (size 948kB), Past article (size 598kB), Headstone

Background : Husband of Alice Broes.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 0 inches, brown eyes, fair complexion, brown hair. Marital status : married. Dependent children : 6 under 16 years old, 1 16 years & older. Marks / scars : small scar right lower shin. Full time war service : A.I.F. 25/06/1940 to 03/12/1945 which included 1988 days active service (53 days within Australia & 1649 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East and Java areas (embarked from Australia 07/04/1941, disembarked in Australia 11/10/1945). War badge no. 259224. Discharge certificate no. 310431.

Service record
25/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
12/07/1940 Transferred to 6 Training Battalion Mt. Martha, Victoria from Recruit Reception Depot.
15/07/1940 Returned to Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
20/09/1940 Transferred to 2/2 Pioneer Training Battalion Hamilton, Victoria.
10/01/1941 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Hamilton, Victoria.
10/01/1941 Marched out on pre embarkation leave.
21/01/1941 Posted from Pioneer Training Battalion to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion 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.
11/10/1941 A / Graded Group II Miner.
31/01/1942 Embarked Middle East on S.S. Orcades.
18/02/1942 Disembarked Batavia, Java.
07/03/1942 Reported missing in action, Java.
30/04/1942 Reported missing in action, Java and transferred to X list.
18/09/1942 Previously reported missing in action now believed prisoner of war.
18/09/1943 Reported prisoner of war.
10/12/1943 Reported interned in Thailand camp.
22/12/1943 Reported interned Thailand camp.
11/10/1945 Disembarked Sydney, New South Wales on M.V. Highland Chieftain.
13/10/1945 Marched into General Details Depot, Victoria from General Details Depot New South Wales Lines of Communication area.
20/11/1945 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with hookworm.
29/11/1945 Marched out to Australian Military Forces Discharge Depot.
03/12/1945 Discharged.