RILEY William Gerald VX41142 B Coy [F Force]
Pte Riley was living in Carlton and enlisted when he was 23 years old.
He joined the 2/29th Battalion and trained at Bonegilla and Bathurst Camps before being transported to Singapore.
He was reported missing between 18 & 22 1.1942 and reported as a Prisoner of War at Kuala Lumpa on 17.7.1942. He was returned to Singapore on 3.10.1942 having been captured on 25.1.1942.
He worked on F Force Was evacuated to hospital on 31.8.1943 and died at Kanchanaburi Hospital on 19.9.1943 of Beri Beri and cholera and buried at Kanchanaburi.
