Return to Australia - Escaped

Return to Australia | Escaped | Repatriated | Returned by Ship - 1945 | Returned by Air - 1945 | Anzac Day March - Sydney

A few Battalion members escaped from Singapore, and either made their way to Java, or ended up in Ceylon. They eventually made their way back to Australia on various ships.

• Abbekerk, arrived Fremantle 5/3/1942

• HMAS Bendigo, arrived Fremantle 8/3/1942

• Edendale, arrived Fremantle 5/3/1942

• Stirling Castle, arrived Melbourne 28/3/1942

• Stirling Castle, arrived Melbourne 13/8/1942

• Thepsatri Nawa, arrived Fremantle 6/3/1942

• Zaandam (Zaan Dam), arrived Fremantle 7/3/1942

• Unknown

Some of them later served with other Australian units in New Guinea, returned to Singapore in 1945 with the POW Reception Groups, or served with the BCOF in Japan after the war.

Click here for a full list of those who escaped.

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