NX60329 PRIVATE Allan LAVERTY

Date of Birth:  15 March 1916

Place of Birth: Crookwell NSW

Next of Kin: Mr Obert Oswald Laverty - Father

Enlistment Date: 15 June 1940  

Unit: 2/19th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces

Theatre of Service: Malaya, Singapore

Date of Death: 12 September 1944

Place of Death: On board the Japanese transport ship “Rokyu Maru”

Cause of Death: Killed when the ship was sunk by an American Submarine

Notes: Remembered on the Labuan Memorial, Labuan Island, North Borneo

Was captured by the Japanese during the fall of Singapore and taken Prisoner of War