Colin Lachlan McBean

b. 11 Dec 1911 Mount Pleasant, SA

d. 23 December 1979 at Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Service number SX8450

Enlisted 9 July 1940

Rank Corporal, Unit 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion

Reported missing in action 27 April 1942

5 August 1942 Jap Radio reported POW Java

7 Aug 1942 believed POW

13 Sep 1945  reported POW Siam alive

4 October 1945 Recovered from Japs

20 October 1945 Embarked Singapore per HIGHLAND BDE, Disembarked Fremantle

20 Nov 1945 Discharged to 121 General Hospital

29 Nov 1945 Reprimanded for disobeying camp orders

10 Jan 1946 to SA

Listed on Mount Pleasant WW2 Honour Roll

Portrait photograph obtained from SLSA website

Disc photograph from collection of Mount Pleasant District History Room

Ansell Edward Britten-Jones

b. 28 May 1921 Melbourne Vic

d. 15 April 1943 Palam, India

Attended Birdwood Primary and High Schools, then Roseworthy Agriculture College, during which time he joined the force.

Lived at ‘Thorlindah’ Tungkillo, a soldier settler property purchased by his father, Ansell Britten-Jones

Service number 41606

Enlisted 3 March 1941

Last served with No. 194 Squadron (RAF), as Flight Sergeant

On 3 March 1941, on his first sortie from Palam airport, near Delhi, to drop supplies and men to British forces holed up behind Japanese invaders in Bruma, Brit died when his aircraft failed to take off properly. The Hudson aircraft crashed on take-off.

Buried Delhi War Cemetery, Plot 1, Row H, Grave 9 Headstone inscription reads: ‘With God’

Ronald Edward Horwood

b. 27 June 1920 Port Augusta, SA

d. 9 July 1943 Thailand

Service number SX10287

Rank Private, Army, 8th Division Ammunition Sub Park AASC

Enlisted 5 October 1940

Served Woodside, Alice Springs, then to Singapore. Reported missing 16 February 1942. Prisoner of War 13 August 1943. Died of cholera.

In 1943 his parents received a card stating he was well, then at Christmas 1944 they received a card stating he was with Colin McBean and friends - he had in fact died in September 1943. In 1945 the family were notified of his death.

Buried Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand, British plot 6, row D, gr 15-19, communal grave.

Listed on Mount Pleasant WW2 Honour Roll

Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance

Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

 - The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)Wednesday 1 September 1943 - Page 6

Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Horwood of Rosebank, Mount Pleasant, have been notified that their son, Pte. R. E. Horwood, is a prisoner of war in Japanese hands.

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)Wednesday 15 September 1943 - Page 4

Mrs. R. G. Horwood, of Rosebank, Mount Pleasant, received a card from her son, Pte. R. E. Horwood, AIF, who was captured at Singapore, stating that he was

well. It was the first advice from him since his capture.

 The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)Wednesday 20 December 1944 - Page 8

Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Horwood. Of Rosebank, Mount Pleasant, formerly of Blinman, who had heard no news of their POW son, Ronald, for more than 18 months, have received the best of all Christmas greetings in this message: — 'Christmas greetings. Am very well. Do not worry. With Colin McBean and friends. all safe and well. Keep your chin up: always thinking of you. Love to all. Ronald.'

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)Wednesday 3 October 1945 - Page 8

Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Horwood, of Rose Bank, Mount Pleasant, have been notified privately that their only son. Pte. R. E. Horwood, who was previously a prisoner of war in Japanese hands is known to have died of illness in 1943. Before enlisting, he was with Mr. W. B. Ferguson, of North Moolooloo station.