Soldier profiles
Name : WHITE, JAMES JOHN
Service Number : VX22430
Date of Birth : 16/10/1914
Place of Birth : JERILDERIE, NSW
Known as : JACK
Occupation on Enlistment :
Date of Enlistment : 05/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : JERILDERIE, NSW
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : WHITE, H
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 : 14/12/1945
Date Died : ??/04/2005
Age at Death : 90
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) : SHIBAURA DENKI (JAPAN), TOKYO (JAPAN)
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : JAPAN
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial B-JAVA-0092 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6205538 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Past article (size 432kB), AWM_019202.jpg, 2/2 Pioneers Newsletter 09/2005
Background : Arrived in Japan September 1944 aboard hellship Kibitsu Maru (survivor rescued by Japanese after hellship Rakuyo Maru sinking). Part of the Kawasaki group. Repatriated to Australia on the H.M.S. Formidable.
