Robert Philip ELVISH

Born 18 September 1901 in Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England ^[16]
Son of Robert ELVISH and Emily MILLS ^{[17] [21]}
Departed London, England on the steamship Maloja and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 8 February 1938 ^[63]
Resided in Carnamah prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 13 September 1940 ^{[0: images 02938 & 04149] [16]}
Private WX8381 in the Australian Army's 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion during the Second World War ^[16]
In a list of war casualties released in September 1942 he was listed as "missing" and was later a Prisoner of War ^{[0: image 04149] [16]}
Died from an illness in Siam on 9 October 1943; buried at the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Thailand ^[17]

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