JOHNSTON, Colin Stuart

JOHNSTON, Colin Stuart – A Southern Downs Veteran

CONFLICT : WWII
SERVICE NO : NX65469
RANK : Private
UNIT : 1st Company Australian Army Service Corps
ENLISTMENT DATE : 23/08/1940
AGE : 25
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT : Paddington, New South Wales
PLACE OF BIRTH : Wickpin, Western Australia
RELIGION : Presbyterian
OCCUPATION : Bank Clerk
DATE OF DEATH : 14/07/1945
PLACE OF BURIAL : Labuan, Malaysia

MEMORIALS : Warwick State High School Roll of Honour 1939-1945, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisioners of War Roll of Honour, Melbourne Union Bank of Australia Limited ‘In Memoriam’ WW2 Honour Roll, Labuan Memorial to the Missing

View this person’s Service File : JOHNSTON, Colin Stuart

NOTES : Colin’s parents, James and Daphne Johnston moved to Warwick with their children when James Johnston took up the position of banker with the Union Bank.

Colin Stuart Johnston enrolled at the Warwick State High School on the July 4, 1927.  After his schooling was completed, Colin joined his father at the Union Bank, working as a bank clerk.

Colin enlisted in the army and was posted to the 1st Company AASC. He departed Australia for Singapore on February 19, 1941.

With the fall of Singapore in February 1942, he was reported missing and this was later updated to Prisoner of War.

Colin was interned at the Sandakan POW Camp and died there on July 14, 1945.

Read about Southern Downs Military History here.