CLYDE DAVID JONES
VX 46864
7th then 9th Division, 26th Brigade, 2/24th Infantry Battalion
MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA - TOBRUK
POW ITALY
15.7.1940 Enlisted Caulfield, Melbourne, 22 years old, from Phillip Island
22.4.40 15th Infantry Training Battalion, Shepparton
11.9.40 Posted to 2/24th Battalion, Wangaratta
16.11.40 Embarked from Melbourne aboard HMT Strathmore
17.12.40 Disembarked Middle East
30.4.1941 Surrounded by German tanks, Tobruk
1.5.41 No ammunition left, surrendered
May 41 – Sep 41 In transit at sea and POW transit camps in Italy
26.4.41 – 25.4.1943 POW In notorious campo 57 Grupignano near Udin
26.4.43 – 9.9.43 POW in further two Italian POW Work Camps.
9.9.43 Escaped from POW Campo 106, Vercelli, Northern Italy. Headed for the Alps
13.10.43 Reported as arrived in Switzerland over the Alps on foot
11.10.1944 Embarked from Italy for Australia via Middle East and Bombay
17.11.44 Disembarked USS “General A E Anderson” troop ship Melbourne
Nov 44 – April 1945 several months in hospitals and rehabilitation, then General Divisional Duties
29.1.1945 Discharge approved: “AMR&O 253A (R.184A) (1) (h)” - for employment in an essential service.
6.4.1945 Discharged from Royal Park barracks, Melbourne