Five: Sergeant R. H. Trevithick, 2/2 Reserve Motor Transport Company, Australian Army, who was taken P.O.W. in Malaya in 1942

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed ‘SX. 8180 R. H. Trevithick’, generally good very fine (5) £200-250

Richard Hartley Trevithick, who was born in Port Pirie, South Australia in January 1910, enlisted in Adelaide in July 1940, and was posted to 2/2/ Motor Reserve Motor Transport Company. A unit of the 8th Division, A.I.F., the Company was deployed in the defence of Malaya, Trevithick and many of his comrades being taken P.O.W. - and incarcerated in Changi. He was among those liberated at the War’s end and was discharged in the rank of Sergeant in July 1946.