Soldier profiles

Name : GREENING, RODERICK JAMES
Service Number : VX21689
Date of Birth : 20/09/1914
Place of Birth : NYORA, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : GAS EMPLOYEE
Date of Enlistment : 06/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : TOORAK, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : GREENING, CLARA
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 : FORT MERDJAYOUN (SYRIA)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 16/10/1946
Date Died : ??/??/1986
Age at Death : 72?
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) : THAILAND
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : THAILAND
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial B-JAVA-0035 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6208885 [DIGITISED], Barcode 1033145 [NOT EXAMINED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Past article (size 368kB)

Background : Son of Clara Margaret Greening.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 6 feet 2.5 inches, brown eyes, medium complexion, dark hair. Marital status : single. Marks / scars : right thigh amputation. Full time war service : A.I.F. 06/05/1940 to 16/10/1946 which included 2355 days active service (365 days within Australia & 1655 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East & Java areas (embarked from Australia 07/04/1941, disembarked in Australia 17/10/1945). War badge no. 241719. Discharge certificate no. 560333.

Service record
06/05/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
09/06/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
03/07/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with influenza.
06/07/1940 Discharged to unit.
20/07/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with influenza.
28/07/1940 Discharged to unit.
08/08/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (U.R.T.I.).
14/08/1940 Discharged to duty.
10/10/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with mumps.
25/10/1940 Discharged from Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, 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 and transferred to X list.
20/07/1941 Previously reported missing, now located hospital - sick.
20/07/1941 Evacuated 60 British General Hospital - sick.
09/08/1941 Discharged 60 British General Hospital and transferred to Pioneer Training Battalion.
09/08/1941 Marched into Pioneer Training Battalion.
24/08/1941 Evacuated 1 Australian General Hospital Middle East with scabies.
09/09/1941 Discharged 1 Australian General Hospital and marched into camp (scabies, pyoderma otitis).
02/10/1941 Marched out to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
04/10/1941 Taken on strength from Pioneer Training Battalion Middle East.
17/01/1942 Evacuated 7 Australian General Hospital with malaria and transferred to X list.
26/01/1942 Discharged and marched out to Pioneer Training Battalion.
26/01/1942 Marched in ex 7 Australian General Hospital.
27/01/1942 Marched out to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
27/01/1942 Taken on strength from Australian Pioneer Training Battalion.
31/01/1942 Embarked Middle East on S.S. Orcades.
18/02/1942 Disembarked Batavia, Java.
07/03/1942 Reported missing in action.
30/04/1942 Reported missing in action (Java) and transferred to X list.
14/08/1942 Reported missing in action believed prisoner of war.
28/07/1943 Reported prisoner of war (Java).
15/08/1945 Granted proficiency pay.
17/10/1945 Disembarked Melbourne, Victoria on S.S. Tamaroa.
17/10/1945 Marched into General Details Depot ex S.S. Tamaroa.
27/11/1945 Admitted 124 Australian Special Hospital, Victoria with ? veneral disease.
08/12/1945 Discharged to General Details Depot (non specific welt).
08/12/1945 Marched in ex 124 Australian Special Hospital.
04/01/1946 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria for prosthesis.
16/10/1946 Discharged.