Five: Private A. V. Burns, Australian Forces, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War by the Japanese in Malaya on 26 March 1942, and died of disease in captivity on 15 December 1943
1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Australia Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘NX52946 A. V. Burns., with named medal enclosure, extremely fine

Australia Service Medal (NX71943 W. E. Pepper) officially impressed naming, extremely fine (6) £100-£140

Alfred Vincent Burns was born at Charters Towers, Queensland, on 22 January 1915, and attested for the Australian Forces at Sydney, New South Wales. He served with the 2nd/20th Battalion, Australian Infantry during the Second World War in Singapore and Malaya from 1 March 1941, and was appointed to Sub-Group Special Intelligence Section on 8 November 1941. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War on 26 March 1942, and died of acute pneumonia in captivity on 15 December 1943. He is buried in Yokohama Cemetery, Japan.

Wallace Edwin Pepper was born at Enfield, New South Wales, on 23 December 1920, and attested for the Australian Forces at Paddington, Sydney, on 25 March 1941. Posted to the 3rd Reserve, Motor Transport Company, he served with the unit in Singapore and Malaya from 24 April 1941, and was captured and taken Prisoner of War on 27 April 1942. On 6 September 1944 he was one of more than 1,300 Prisoners of War packed on board the ‘hell-ship’ the Rakuyo Maru for conveying to Japan, and was killed on 12 September 1944 when the transport ship was sunk by Allied submarines. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Labaun Memorial.

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