Soldier profiles
Name : BURROUGHS, RAYMOND CLARENCE
Service Number : NX84059
Date of Birth : 18/11/1922
Place of Birth : MACLEAN, NSW
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Date of Enlistment : 15/01/1942
Locality on Enlistment : YOUNG, NSW
Place of Enlistment : PADDINGTON, NSW
Next of Kin : BURROUGHS, FREDERICK (FATHER)
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : CORPORAL
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) : INTELLIGENCE SECTION (NEW GUINEA)
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : NEW GUINEA, BORNEO?
Actions : LAE (NEW GUINEA), RAMU VALLEY (NEW GUINEA), TARAKAN? (BORNEO), BALIKPAPAN? (BORNEO)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 22/01/1946
Date Died : ??/03/2011
Age at Death : 88
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 4638416 [NOT EXAMINED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Past article (size 287kB)
Background : Studied mapping after completing his Leaving Certificate at Canberra High School. Brother of Sergeant Pilot Phillip Burroughs who was killed 1943 in air battle (Tunisia, North Africa).
