Service: Army – 105 General Transport Company
Service number: VX36368
Locality on Enlistment: Apollo Bay
Duration of Service: 6 Jul 1940 – 2 Jul 1945
Prisoner of War: Yes
Honours: None for display
Date and Place of Birth: 1 Mar 1902 Ballarat
Parents: Noah Evan DAVID and Mary Ann CROSS
Spouse: Elizabeth JEFFERY
School/s:
Occupation: Tractor and Truck Mechanic
Date and Place of Death: 2 Jul 1945 Siam
Place of Burial: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Thailand
NOTES: Evan was among the troops who departed the Middle-East and were chosen as part of Blackforce to defend the Island of Java after the fall of Singapore. They disembarked in Java on 18 Feb 1942. The Japanese landed from 28 February onwards. Blackforce and 2/105 GT Coy withdrew through Bandung towards Pameungpeuk on the south coast, hoping for evacuation but without prospect of this or effective resistance, it was surrendered on 9 March 1942. Evan had survived being a POW of the Japanese for over three long years only to die of Malaria on 02 Jul 1945, one month prior to Japan agreeing to surrender on 14 Aug 1945.