Soldier profiles

Name : BOVER, CHARLES FREDERICK
Service Number : VX8270
Date of Birth : 11/01/1908
Place of Birth : ESSEX, ENGLAND
Known as : CHARLIE
Occupation on Enlistment : GAS EMPLOYEE
Date of Enlistment : 14/05/1940
Locality on Enlistment : SURREY HILLS, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : BOVER, MARY
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : 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 :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 16/04/1946
Date Died : 31/12/2000
Age at Death : 92
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-0010 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6217246 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Herald Sun Death Notice 02/01/2001

Background : Husband of Mary Patricia Bover.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. No previous military experience. Brown eyes, dark hair. Marks / scars : mole right upper abdomen.

Service record
14/05/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
20/05/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria from Recruit Reception Depot.
22/07/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with infected finger.
26/07/1940 Discharged Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria to unit.
23/08/1940 Appointed Group II specialised cook. Pay 7 shillings / day.
09/02/1941 Admitted to Camp Dressing Station Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
09/02/1941 Admitted with acute gastroenteritis.
13/02/1941 Discharged to unit.
13/02/1941 Rejoined unit from Camp Dressing Station Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
10/03/1941 Evacuated to 5 Casualty Clearing Station Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria.
10/03/1941 Admitted with infected finger.
14/03/1941 Discharged to unit.
14/03/1941 Rejoined unit from 5 Casualty Clearing Station Balcombe, Mt. Martha, 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.
09/07/1941 Evacuated to 7 Australian General Hospital with dysentery and transferred to X list.
19/07/1941 Discharged 7 Australian General Hospital and transferred to Pioneer Training Battalion Australian Imperial Forces.
22/07/1941 Marched into Pioneer Training Battalion from 7 Australian General Hospital.
04/08/1941 Marched out to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion from Pioneer Training Battalion.
05/08/1941 Taken on strength 2/2 Pioneer Battalion from Pioneer Training Battalion.
23/08/1941 Evacuated to 2/4 Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station with Pyrexia of Unknown Origin (P.U.O.) ?sandfly fever.
25/08/1941 Evacuated from 2/4 Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station to 1 Australian Corps Rest Station.
07/09/1941 Discharged 1 Australian Corps Rest Station and returned to unit.
07/09/1941 Rejoined unit from 1 Australian Corps Rest Station.
15/10/1941 Relinquished Group II Cook.
16/10/1941 Promoted to acting Corporal.
27/11/1941 Reverted to Private.
28/11/1941 Graded Group II Cook.
18/02/1942 Relinquished Group II Cook.
19/02/1942 Promoted to 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 date unknown and transferred to X list.
07/10/1942 Reported missing in action believed prisoner of war.
19/06/1943 Previously reported missing in action believed prisoner of war now reported prisoner of war interned Java camp.
20/08/1945 Alive in Siam (Thailand). Recovered from Japanese.
05/09/1945 Recovered from Changi prisoner of war camp.
24/09/1945 Admitted 2/14 Australian General Hospital.
05/10/1945 Evacuated to 2/1 Hospital Ship.
05/10/1945 Embarked Singapore on hospital ship H.M.A.S. Manunda.
24/10/1945 Disembarked Melbourne, Victoria.
24/10/1945 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria ex hospital ship H.M.A.S. Manunda.
26/10/1945 Discharged to General Details Depot, Victoria.
26/10/1945 Marched in.
18/12/1945 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with Amoebiasis Strongyloides.
15/02/1946 Discharged to Stonnington Convalescent Hospital, Victoria.
15/02/1946 Admitted Stonnington Convalescent Hospital, Victoria with Amoebiasis.
01/03/1946 Evacuated to 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
01/03/1946 Admitted from Stonnington Convalescent Hospital, Victoria.
02/04/1946 Discharged to General Details Depot Southern Command.
02/04/1946 Marched in ex 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
12/04/1946 Marched out to Australian Military Forces Discharge Depot.
12/04/1946 Marched in ex Leave and Transit Depot.
16/04/1946 Discharged.