"Aussie" Austin Newman CLIMIE
Born 23 October 1907 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Murray Felix Austin Campbell CLIMIE and Eliza Martha NEWMAN [55]
His father died at the age of 27 following at accident at the Sons of Gwalia Mine in Leonora in 1910 [39: 20-Jul-1910, 22-Jul-1910]
In 1913 his mother was married for the second time to William Thomas JACKS [66]
His mother purchased prospective farmland in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company in 1927 [27]
Farmer in Coorow in 1929-1933 [19]
Member of the Coorow Football Club 1929-1932 [39: 26-Aug-1929] [86:10-May-1930] [5: 15-Jul-1932]
He was named the Coorow Football Club's Best Player for 1929 at the club's end of season dance on 17 August 1929 [39: 26-Aug-1929]
In 1940 he was working as a Truck Driver and living with his mother and stepfather at 45 Havelock Street in West Perth [30: item 6455126]
Enlisted in the Australian Army in West Perth on 23 July 1940, described as having brown hair and blue eyes [16] [30: item 6455126]
He gave his mother as his next of kin and following her death revised to his sister Dorothy and then his stepfather [16] [30: item 6455126]
Underwent training with the army at Northam in Western Australia and then at Darwin in the Norther Territory [30]
Disembarked from the motorship Batavia in Singapore on 26 January 1942 on his way to Malaya [30]
Private WX4927 in the Australian Army's 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion during the Second World War [16]
He was reported missing in Malaya on 16 February 1942 and was later declared a Prisoner of War [30]
Spent time in a camp in Thailand and was being moved to Japan when the ship he was on was torpedoed on 12 September 1944 [30]
He was rescued by the Japanese, interned at their Tokyo Camp and died there when it was struck by an air raid [30]
Killed in Action on 13 July 1945; memorialised at Yokohama War Cemetery in Japan (Australia Section, Plot A, Row A, Grave 15) [17]
It was announced on 1 October 1945 that he'd been Killed in Action while a Prisoner of War, aged 37 years [225: 1-Oct-1945]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Austin Newman Climie' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 19 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/austin-newman-climie [reference list] |
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