Soldier profiles

Name : ALLARDICE, MAXWELL DUDLEY
Service Number : VX20859
Date of Birth : 21/04/1921
Place of Birth : HAMILTON, VIC
Known as : MAX
Occupation on Enlistment : CLERK
Date of Enlistment : 01/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : PORTLAND, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : ALLARDICE, JOHN
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : LANCE CORPORAL
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 : FORT MERDJAYOUN (SYRIA)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 07/12/1945
Date Died : ??/??/1976
Age at Death : 55?
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) : SYRIA, JAVA
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : NO
P.O.W. Camps (details) : SYRIA, JAVA
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : SYRIA, THAILAND
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial B-JAVA-0002 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6215443 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Past article (size 44kB)

Background : Repatriated to Australia on M.V. Highland Brigade. Maxwell's widow stated that he died in 1976.

Service & personal summary Son of John James Allardice. At enlistment : single. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 10 inches, brown eyes, fair complexion, fair hair. Marital status : single. Full time war service : A.I.F. 01/06/1940 to 07/12/1945 which included 2016 days active service (47 days within Australia & 1659 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East and Java areas (embarked from Australia 07/04/1941, disembarked in Australia 21/10/1945). War badge no. 145456. Discharge certificate no. 314265.

Service record
01/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
03/06/1940 Posted 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.
17/06/1941 Reported missing in action Fort Merdjayoun and transferred to X list.
18/07/1941 Rejoined unit & struck off X list (released prisoner of war).
27/08/1941 Next of kin change of address.
24/10/1941 Next of kin change of address.
22/01/1942 Appointed Lance Corporal.
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.
01/10/1942 Reported missing in action believed prisoner of war.
08/06/1944 Reported prisoner of war.
15/08/1945 Granted proficiency pay.
08/09/1944 To be paid as Lance Corporal from 01/07/1943.
06/10/1945 Embarked Singapore on M.V. Highland Brigade.
21/10/1945 Disembarked Melbourne, Victoria.
21/10/1945 Marched into General Details Depot, Melbourne, Victoria ex M.V. Highland Brigade.
29/11/1945 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with ascaris and hookworm.
30/11/1945 Evacuated from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria to 50 Australian Convalescent Hospital, Victoria
30/11/1945 Admitted from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
03/12/1945 Discharged to General Details Depot, Victoria.
03/12/1945 Marched into General Details Depot, Victoria ex 50 Australian Convalescent Hospital.
06/12/1945 Marched out to Australian Military Forces Discharge Depot, Victoria.
07/12/1945 Discharged.