Soldier profiles

Name : HUNT, FREDERICK
Service Number : VX57077
Date of Birth : 14/10/1904
Place of Birth : RICHMOND, VIC
Known as : FRED
Occupation on Enlistment : BUILDER, PAINTER
Date of Enlistment : 02/06/1941
Locality on Enlistment : SPRINGVALE, VIC
Place of Enlistment : ROYAL PARK, VIC
Next of Kin : HUNT, ELSIE
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 : 13/05/1946
Date Died : 30/04/1992
Age at Death : 87
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-0043 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6123495 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Past article (size 225kB)

Background : Repatriated Singapore to Australia on hospital ship S.S. Karoa.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 7 inches, brown eyes, medium complexion, brown hair. Marital status : single. Medical : varicose veins. Full time war service : A.I.F. 02/06/1941 to 13/05/1946 which included 1807 days active service (178 days within Australia & 1536 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East area (embarked from Australia 03/09/1941, disembarked in Australia 16/11/1945). War badge no. 188485. Discharge certificate no. 509612.

Service record
02/06/1941 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Royal Park, Victoria.
13/06/1941 Transferred to Southern Command Engineering Training Depot.
13/06/1941 Transferred from Recruit Reception Depot.
23/06/1941 Transferred to Pioneer Wing Engineering Training Depot Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
08/07/1941 Posted to 4 Reinforcements 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
03/09/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.T. G.G.
23/09/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
07/11/1941 Marched out to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
10/11/1941 Taken on strength from 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, 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.
04/11/1943 Reported prisoner of war.
13/12/1943 Reported interned Thailand camp and transferred to Thailand camp.
22/12/1943 Reported interned Thailand camp.
15/08/1945 Granted proficiency pay.
20/08/1945 Recovered Singapore by Headquarters 2 Prisoner Of War Recovery Group.
02/10/1945 Admitted 2/14 Australian General Hospital.
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 ex on hospital ship S.S. Karoa.
07/12/1945 Discharged to General Details Depot Pioneer Wing with Not Yet Diagnosed Neurosis (N.Y.D.N.) varicose veins.
08/01/1946 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with varicose veins from General Details Depot.
08/03/1946 Evacuated to 30 Convalescent Hospital with varicose veins right knee.
08/03/1946 Admitted 30 Convalescent Hospital ex 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with varicose veins right knee.
09/03/1946 Admitted 107 Australian Convalescent Hospital with varicose veins right knee from 30 Convalescent Hospital.
09/03/1946 Evacuated to 107 Australian Convalescent Hospital with varicose veins right knee.
24/04/1946 Medical reassessed B1 right knee.
26/04/1946 Transferred out to General Details Depot.
26/04/1946 Marched in ex 107 Convalescent Depot.
13/05/1946 Discharged.