Soldier profiles
Name : CHENOWETH, IAN HAROLD
Service Number : 128390 (VX90978)
Date of Birth : 30/09/1918
Place of Birth : CANTERBURY, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : DOCTOR
Date of Enlistment : 15/12/1942
Locality on Enlistment : HAWTHORN, VIC
Place of Enlistment : ROYAL PARK, VIC
Next of Kin : CHENOWETH, RICHARD
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : CAPTAIN
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : NEW GUINEA, BORNEO
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 03/10/1946
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) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 3289765 [NOT EXAMINED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, AUSTRALIA REMEMBERS BORNEO PILGRIMAGE 1995 PAGE 7
Background : Served in militia before enlisting in A.I.F. (trained as mechanical transport driver at Bonegilla). Posted to 2/4 Australian Field Ambulance. February 1943 Evacuated to 2/5 Australian General Hospital with skin disease. 22/07/1943 Disembarked Port Moresby, New Guinea and attached for 2 months to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion. September 1943 Attached to 2/4 Australian Field Ambulance. December 1943 Allocated role as Regimental Medical Officer. February 1944 Returned to Australia. February 1945 Reallocated to 110 Casualty Clearing Station, Tarakan, Borneo. September 1945 Returned to Australia. Worked at Heidelberg Military Hospital. Son born December 1943.
