Soldier profiles

Name : ALLEN, EDWARD
Service Number : VX56925
Date of Birth : 25/12/1906
Place of Birth : LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : BARMAN
Date of Enlistment : 29/05/1941
Locality on Enlistment : PASCOE VALE, VIC
Place of Enlistment : ROYAL PARK, VIC
Next of Kin : ALLEN, DOROTHY
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 : 23/01/1946
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) : 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-0003 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6123426 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Past article (size 225kB)

Background : Husband of Dorothy Allen.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 9 inches, brown eyes, medium complexion, brown hair. Marital status : married. Dependent children : 2 under 16 years old, 1 16 years & older. Marks / scars : Brown mole lower end of sternum, outerside left lower leg and small multiple left patella. Medical : bilateral hypermetropic slight astigmatism, bilateral slight amblyopia, ulcer both legs. Full time war service : A.I.F. 28/05/1941 to 23/01/1946 which included 1801 days active service (68 days within Australia & 1476 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East and Java areas (embarked from Australia 02/11/1941, disembarked in Australia 16/11/1945). War badge no. 241626. Discharge certificate no. 485511.

Service record
29/05/1941 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Royal Park, Victoria.
11/06/1941 Transferred to Engineering Training Depot.
12/06/1941 Transferred from Recruit Reception Depot.
23/06/1941 Transferred to Pioneer Wing Engineering Training Depot.
08/07/1941 Posted to 4 Reinforcements 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
02/11/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. L.L.).
24/11/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
21/01/1942 Marched out to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion from Pioneer Training Battalion.
21/01/1942 Taken on strength 2/2 Pioneer Battalion from Pioneer Training Battalion Australian Imperial Forces.
31/01/1942 Embarked Suez, Middle East on S.S. Orcades.
18/02/1942 Disembarked Batavia, Java.
07/03/1942 Reported missing in action, Java.
19/09/1942 Reported missing in action believed prisoner of war.
13/09/1943 Now reported prisoner of war.
13/12/1943 Now interned Thailand camp.
22/12/1943 Transferred to Thailand camp.
15/08/1945 Granted proficiency pay.
20/08/1945 Recovered from Japanese at Siam.
02/09/1945 Reported from India - prisoner of war recovered present location unknown.
09/09/1945 Located Rangoon - general condition good.
09/10/1945 Recovered prisoner of war. Admitted 2/14 Australian General Hospital Singapore.
29/10/1945 Embarked Singapore on hospital ship S.S. Karoa.
16/11/1945 Disembarked Melbourne, Victoria.
16/11/1945 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with Amoebiasis ex hospital ship S.S. Karoa.
21/11/1945 Discharged to General Details Depot, Victoria.
09/01/1946 Marched into General Details Depot, Victoria ex 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
23/01/1946 Discharged.