Arthur Varley
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Brigadier Arthur Leslie Varley, MC & Bar (13 October 1893 – 13 September 1944) was an Australian soldier who served in the First and the Second World Wars. He was commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade during the final stages of the Battle of Singapore in the Second World War. Having surrendered to the Japanese, he was responsible for over 9,000 prisoners of war engaged in the construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway. He was killed in September 1944 when the transport ship taking him and several hundred fellow prisoners to Japan was sunk by an American submarine.
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Arthur Varley
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Arthur Varley
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Arthur Varley
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Near Hainan, South China Sea
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Rookwood, Australia
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35581463
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1915
1939
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Australia
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First World War
* Western Front
Second World War
* Malayan campaign
* Battle of Singapore
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1893-10-13
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1944-09-13
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Brigadier Arthur Leslie Varley, MC & Bar (13 October 1893 – 13 September 1944) was an Australian soldier who served in the First and the Second World Wars. He was commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade during the final stages of the Battle of Singapore in the Second World War. Having surrendered to the Japanese, he was responsible for over 9,000 prisoners of war engaged in the construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway. He was killed in September 1944 when the transport ship taking him and several hundred fellow prisoners to Japan was sunk by an American submarine.
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2
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22
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35
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A Force
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Australia
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1920
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1915
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14799
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2/18th Battalion(1940–42)
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22nd Infantry Brigade(1942)
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35th Battalion(1939–40)
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A Force (1942–44)