William John LINDSAY
Service
number: QX13785. Age:
32 years 5 months. Enlisted: 2 Jul 1940.
Occupation: Carpenter. Next of kin: (wife) Mrs Muriel Lindsay.
Address
on enlistment:
Bribie Island.
13
Oct 1945, Sydney. Aircraft carrier HMS Formidable
transporting
members of 1 Coy AASC from POW camps.[1]
Service
Summary:
2
Jul 1940: 1 Company Australian Army Service Corps. [2]
2 Feb 1941: Embarked on HMT QX1 for
Singapore.
27 Feb 1941: Disembarked for Naval
Barracks, Singapore. Served in Malacca and Malaya.
15 Feb 1942: Prisoner of War, held at
Changi Prison following the Fall of Singapore.
18 Mar 1943: Entrained Singapore D Force.
18 Jun 1944: Prisoner of War #7519, Omuta –
Fukuoka 17, Japan.[3]
6 and 9 Aug 1945: Atomic bombs devastate Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
13 Sep 1945: Recovered from Japanese at Omuta
by American Recovery Team.
Sep
1945, Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan: Allied prisoners-of-war (POWs) at
Fukuoka Camp 17 at Omuta, lining up to collect their tickets home, after being
liberated by an American Recovery Team at the end of the Second World War.[4]
Fukuoka Camp 17 at Omuta, lining up to collect their tickets home, after being
liberated by an American Recovery Team at the end of the Second World War.[4]
14 Oct 1945: Returned to Australia on HMS Formidable from Malaya to Sydney.
25 Jan 1946: Discharged.
Life
Summary:
William John Lindsay (1908-1972) was born 29 Jan 1908 at Pomona, the eldest son
of David Reed Lindsay (1874-1946) and Lavinia Howell (1881-1961). On 16 Nov
1935 William Lindsay married Muriel Cotterill at the Methodist Church on Bribie
Island. The Lindsay family had purchased the Mountain View property on Bribie
Island from the Landell family in 1933.
William Lindsay returned to Australia from
a prisoner of war camp in Malaya on the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable which arrived in Sydney on 14
Oct 1945. Photos of his welcome home from his wife and family were published in
the local Brisbane paper.
14 Oct 1945: The man to whom the greetings on the
banners were directed was
Cpl. Lindsay, with his wife and family, of Bribie Island.[5]
Cpl. Lindsay, with his wife and family, of Bribie Island.[5]
14 Oct 1945: Bill,
Muriel,
Graham (9) and Owen (6).
After his military service, William Lindsay
returned to Bribie Island and his family. Later moving to Morningside and Camp
Hill where he worked as an assessor.
William Lindsay died 2 Oct 1972 aged 64 and
is remembered on the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial[6]
at Ballarat, Victoria and with a memorial plaque at Mt Thompson Memorial
Gardens. [7]
[1] Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial 122108 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C47542
[2] 1 Transport Company https://www.raasc.org.au/content/1%20COY.html
[4] Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial
P01662.010 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C252442
[5] Brisbane welcomes large number of returnees. The
Telegraph, Mon 15 Oct 1945, p. 1 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article188755953
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