List of Australian prisoners of war, Korean War

Service number Rank Name Unit Date of capture Date of release
022048 Flight Lieutenant Gordon Ronald Harvey 77Sqn 19 January 1951 29 August 1953
2400000 Corporal Donald Pattison Buck 3RAR 21 January 1951 6 August 1953
2400024 Corporal Lawrence Edward Buckland 3RAR 21 January 1951 9 February 1951
2400311 Private Thomas Henry Hollis 3RAR 21 January 1951 9 August 1951
1400059 Private Edward George Light 3RAR 21 January 1951 9 February 1951
1400127 Lieutenant Angus Peter McDonald 3RAR 21 January 1951 9 February 1951
2400186 Private Horace William Madden 3RAR 24 April 1951 Died 6 November 1951
2400030 Private Robert Henry Parker 3RAR 24 April 1951 6 August 1953
3400024 Private Keith Roy Gwyther 3RAR 24 April 1951 9 August 1953
022139 Flying Officer Ronald David Guthrie 77 Sqn 1 August 1951 1 September 1953
033624 Flying Officer Vance Drummond 77 Sqn 1 December 1951 1 September 1953
032427 Flying Officer Bruce Lachlan Thomson 77 Sqn 1 December 1951 1 September 1953
5400033 Private John Houston Mackay 3RAR 25 January 1951 23 April 1953
022100 Flight Lieutenant John Thomas Hannan 77 Sqn 1 February 1952 1 September 1953
2400470 Private Alfred Jacobs 3RAR 14 August 1952 23 August 1953
310484 Private Dennis Douglas Condon 1RAR 23 August 1952 23 August 1953
3462 Captain Phillip Jamieson Greville 1RAR 23 August 1952 29 August 1953
1400205 Private Erin Donnelly 3RAR 14 January 1953 23 April 1953
3400629 Private George Smith 3RAR 14 January 1953 6 August 1953
4400163 Private Glen Brown 3RAR 25 January 1953 23 April 1953
2401292 Private Brian Thomas Davoren 3RAR 25 January 1953 23 April 1953
1400542 Private James McCulloch 3RAR 25 January 1953 6 August 1953
3400808 Private Vivian Edward O'Brien 3RAR 25 January 1953 6 August 1953
35689 Private Anthony Poole 3RAR 25 January 1953 6 August 1953
1400481 Private John Frederick Davis 3RAR 25 January 1953 23 April 1953
5400108 Corporal Edward James Perks 3RAR 26 May 1953 26 August 1953
57013 Lieutenant Charles Peter Yacopetti 3RAR 26 May 1953 26 August 1953
2401248 Private Fred Speed 2RAR 7 June 1953 26 August 1953
A2925 Sergeant Donald William Pinkstone 77Sqn 15 June 1953 6 September 1953
1400593 Private Colin Montague Tesch 3RAR 25 June 1953 23 August 1953

Sources:

  • Department of Veterans' Affairs Nominal roll of Australian veterans of the Korean War
  • Robert O’Neill, Combat operations, Australia in the Korean war 1950-1953, vol. 2, Australian War Memorial and The Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1985
  • National Library of Australia, Trove

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Sources

    • Department of Veterans' Affairs Nominal roll of Australian veterans of the Korean War
    • Australian War Memorial, Expunged copy of casualty statistics and nominal roll of deceased in Korea 1950-53; AMF personnel taken prisoner of war in Korea; Nominal Roll of deaths Malayan Emergency 1948-60 and 1959 for Singapore; Nominal roll of deaths, Northern Area Malay Peninsular (Thai Border Operations) 1964-1965; Nominal Roll of Indonesian Confrontation 1962-1966, AWM237 [75]
    • Robert O’Neill, Combat operations, Australia in the Korean war 1950-1953, vol. 2, Australian War Memorial and The Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1985

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