Soldier profiles

Name : CUTTER, ALAN RANDOLPH
Service Number : VX23158
Date of Birth : 04/07/1900
Place of Birth : BALLARAT, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : SCHOOL TEACHER
Date of Enlistment : 06/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : MELBOURNE, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : CUTTER, PERCY
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : SERGEANT
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 : TJAMPEA (JAVA)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 10/04/1946
Date Died : ??/??/1979
Age at Death : 79?
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : SPRINGVALE BOTANICAL CEMETERY, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
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 : Mentioned in Despatches 06/03/1947 for distinguished service in S/W Pacific Area
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial B-JAVA-0021 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6227444 [DIGITISED], Barcode 32341391 [OPEN]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, AWM_030390/12.jpg, Past article (size 948kB)

Background : Brother of Percy Cutter. Married in St. Kilda, Victoria on 20/12/1924.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. 2 years Australian Army Medical Corps previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 11 inches, brown eyes, dark complexion, dark hair. Marital status : single. Marks / scars : scars both legs, appendix scar. Medical : anxiety, chronic bronchitis. Full time war service : A.I.F. 06/06/1940 to 10/04/1946 which included 2135 days active service (177 days within Australia & 1653 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East and Java areas (embarked from Australia 07/04/1941, disembarked in Australia 15/10/1945). War badge no. 290668. Discharge certificate no. 505234.

Service record
06/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
08/06/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
21/06/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with influenza.
25/06/1940 Discharged to unit.
30/06/1940 Appointed to Group III Specialty (Rangetaker).
30/09/1940 Appointment to Group III Specialty (Rangetaker) terminated.
01/10/1940 Appointed to Group I Specialty (Draughtsman).
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.
27/07/1941 Evacuated to 2/4 Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station with Pyrexia of Unknown Origin (P.U.O.) ? malaria.
29/07/1941 Evacuated from 2/4 Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station to 2/3 Casualty Clearing Station.
02/08/1941 Evacuated from 2/3 Casualty Clearing Station to 2 British Casualty Clearing Station.
03/08/1941 Evacuated to 7 Australian General Hospital with ? malaria and transferred to X list.
23/08/1941 Discharged 7 Australian General Hospital and transferred to Pioneer Training Battalion.
23/08/1941 Marched in.
11/09/1941 Marched out to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
12/09/1941 Taken on strength from Pioneer Training Battalion.
19/09/1941 Evacuated to 2/3 Casualty Clearing Station with sandfly fever.
22/09/1941 Discharged 2/3 Casualty Clearing Station and returned to unit.
22/09/1941 Rejoined unit from 2/3 Casualty Clearing Station.
21/01/1942 Relinquished Group I Draughtsman.
22/01/1942 Promoted to Sergeant.
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, Java and transferred to X list.
30/04/1942 Reported missing in action believed prisoner of war.
25/08/1943 Reported prisoner of war.
22/12/1943 Reported interned Thailand camp.
12/10/1945 Emplaned Singapore.
17/10/1945 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria from convoy.
19/10/1945 Discharged to General Details Depot, Victoria.
19/10/1945 Marched in.
28/11/1945 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with nervous condition.
22/01/1946 Discharged to Rockingham Convalescent Hospital Kew, Victoria with nervous state.
22/01/1946 Admitted from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with anxiety state.
01/04/1946 Discharged to General Details Depot Southern Command.
01/04/1946 Marched in ex Rockingham Convalescent Hospital Kew, Victoria.
09/04/1946 Marched out to Australian Military Forces Discharge Depot.
09/04/1946 Marched into Australian Military Forces Discharge Depot, Victoria ex Leave and Transit Depot, Victoria.
10/04/1946 Discharged.
06/03/1947 Mentioned in despatches (M.I.D.).