 1902 - 1945 (42 years)
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| Name |
Arthur Cleland HUTTON |
| Prefix |
W.O. II , |
| Suffix |
, 2/26th Battalion ,A.I.F. |
| Born |
2 Oct 1902 |
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
30 Mar 1945 |
Sandakan P.O.W Camp No1, Borneo |
| Cause: malaria and starvation whilst a P.O.W of the Japanese |
| Buried |
Cemetery No2 Sandakan, Borneo |
| Person ID |
I4195 |
Kirkpatrick Family |
| Last Modified |
27 May 2013 |
| Father |
James Cleland HUTTON, b. 1860, Falconer, Via Guyra, NSW.Australia , d. 31 Jan 1922, Queensland, Australia (Age 62 years) |
| Mother |
Fannie BROOKES, b. 29 Jan 1871, Queensland, Australia , d. 12 Aug 1925, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia (Age 54 years) |
| Married |
13 Dec 1901 |
"Hawthorne", South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
- Ref:Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1954) Wednesday 8 January 1902 p 1 Family Notices.
The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Mon 30 Dec 1901
"HUTTON–BROOKES.–On the 13th December, at Hawthorne, South Brisbane, by the Rev. W.Poole, James Cleland Hutton, third son of the late James Hutton, of Raspberry Creek, Rockhampton, to Fannie, youngest daughter of the late
Benjamin Brookes, of South Brisbane."
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| Family ID |
F1321 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- A Member of B Force,Arthur Cleland Hutton's name is located at panel 53 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial
The Japanese conquered British and Dutch Borneo early in 1942, and the 2/20th surrendered on 15th Feb 1942, and all the men who survived were incarerated in Changi POW Camp. Initially imprisoned in the sprawling Changi prisoner of war camp, it was not long before members of the 2/20th were allocated to external work parties. The first parties were dispatched around Singapore and southern Malaya, but members of the 2/20th later found themselves members of parties bound for the camps along the Burma-Thailand Railway and in Borneo, Japan, French Indochina, Java, Sumatra, and Malaya. These men endured the worst horrors of Japanese captivity and many died. The surviving prisoners were liberated in late-August 1945 and began returning to Australia almost immediately. The 2/20th Battalion was formally disbanded later that year.
B Force (1,496-strong) included 145 officers and medical staff. Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel A. W. Walsh of the 2/10th Field Regiment, it left Singapore in the Ubi Maru on 8 July 1942 and after a nine-day journey in poor conditions disembarked at Sandakan .
E Force embarked on the steamer de Klerk on 29 March 1943 . It contained 500 British prisoners, who disembarked at Kuching, and 500 Australian prisoners , who were sent to Berhala Island (North Borneo) In early June 1943, E Force was moved to Sandakan . Prisoners in B and E Forces included troops from the 2/18th, 2/19th, 2/20th, 2/26th, 2/29th, 2/30th Battalions, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, and the 2/10th Field Ambulance. There were four main camps in Borneo : Sandakan , Kuching, Labuan and Jesselton.
Of these, Sandakan contained the majority of Australians. Captain Hoshijima Susumi commanded Sandakan Camp. In January 1945 the first forced march to Ranau occurred, and the second in May 1945. Of the 2,500 Australian and British prisoners of war, only six Australians survived these "death marches".
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