Soldier profiles
Name : LYNCH, DARCY FREDERICK
Service Number : QX24156
Date of Birth : 19/07/1921
Place of Birth : WARWICK, QLD
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment :
Date of Enlistment : 08/10/1941
Locality on Enlistment : WARWICK, QLD
Place of Enlistment : BRISBANE, QLD
Next of Kin : LYNCH, FRED
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/30 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : JAVA
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 20/04/1945
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) : UNKNOWN
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : AT SEA
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 4484966 [OPEN]), WW2 Nominal Roll
Background : Survivor of the hellship Rakuyo Maru torpedoed on 12/09/1944 by the Balao class submarine U.S.S. Sealion (SS-315) at around 5:00am in the South China Sea, east of Hainan in position 18§42'N, 114§30'E. Japanese hellships were used to transport slave labour (including prisoner of war) under horrendously disgusting conditions. Rescued by Balao class submarine U.S.S. Pampanito (SS-383).
