Enscoe, Frank William

Date of Birth	1914-03-28
Date of Death	1990-09-15
Gender	Male
Birth Place	Australia, Victoria, Cobden

Service Details

Service	RANR - Royal Australian Navy Reserve
Date of Entry	1940-05-14
Rank	Able Seaman
Rate	Gunner
Official Number	PM1228
Discharged Date	1946-03-08
Discharge Type	Demobed - Discharged at end of War Service
Service Period	1940-1946
Active Service (War service)	WW2
Service Record	Yes
Ship	Refer Service Record see Sources

Cemetery Details

Cemetery Name	Springvale Botanical Cemetery
Cemetery Address	Springvale, VIC
Demonination/Area	Dodonaea
Section	N13
Row	Bed 5
Grave Number	06
Grave Type	Cremation - Garden

Notes

Defensively Armed Merchant Ship (DEMS) Gunner. Prisoner of War captured 8 Dec 1940, following the sinking of his ship Triadic by the German raider Orion off Nauru. Picked up by the raider's supply ship Kulmerland, transferred to the raider and then to another German ship the Ermland he reached Bordeaux April 1941.- DEMS Whats DEMS? Marcus 1986. See also Keith Read #4246

Sources

Service Record - Australian National Archives Nominal Roll - Department of Veterans Affairs

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