Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Austin Frank Pond

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Service number VX44770
Birth Date 08/12/1905
Birth Place Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Surrey Hills
Death Date 29/01/1986
Final Rank Lieutenant Colonel
Service Australian Army
Units
  • 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 27th Australian Infantry Brigade
Place Surrey Hills
Conflict/Operation Second World War, 1939-1945

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Career summary 18 *** POST WAR ***
Date of birth 08/12/1905
Date and unit at enlinstment (ORs) 1923
Interwar Service 1 1923 C Platoon MUR
Interwar Service 2 01/07/1924 Sergeant
Interwar Service 3 12/12/1925 warrant officer II Company Sergeant Major
Interwar Service 4 09/09/1926 Lieutenant
Date commissioned 09/09/1926
Interwar Service 5 13/11/1931 Captain
Interwar Service 6 20/09/1938 5th Battalion
Interwar Service 7 21/09/1938 Major
Career summary 2 15/12/1939 Seconded General Service Officer Grade 3 Headquarters 4th Division
Career summary 1 28/10/1939 Course Command and Staff School #12 Prospective Commanding Officers 15
Career summary 3 29/06/1940 General Service Officer Grade 2 Headquarters 4th Division
Career summary 5 11/08/1940 2IC
Career summary 4 01/07/1940 Seconded 2/40th Battalion
Career summary 6 09/11/1940 Brigade Major 27th Brigade
Career summary 9 24/12/1941 Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Career summary 8 15/08/1941 Arrived Singapore
Career summary 7 07/04/1941 Married
Career summary 12 16/02/1942 Missing in Action (reported)
Career summary 10 25/01/1942 Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Officer 2/29th Battalion
Career summary 11 15/02/1942 Prisoner of War
Appointment 1942-01-25 - 1942-02-15 Battalion: 2/29th; Rank on appointment: Lieutenant Colonel; Appointed from: Brigade Major 27th Brigade; Reason for end of appointment: prisoner of war: Singapore
Career summary 13 19/04/1943 Attached F Force 9 (depart Singapore)
Career summary 15 09/10/1945 Returned to Australia (Syd)
Career summary 14 04/09/1945 Safe in Allied hands Changi
Career summary 17 30/08/1946 Mention in Despatches (Malaya 42)
Career summary 16 31/01/1946 ED
Career summary 19 05/06/1952 General Service Officer Grade 1 AHeadquarters DMT(CMF)
Career summary 20 09/12/1955 Retired List
Date of death 29/01/1986

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