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Anzlie Vivian Chick
(Teacher)
​11 October 1902 - 3 September 1943 while Prisoner of War
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​CHICK,  ANZLIE VIVIAN.
ROLL OF HONOUR.
A/Cpl. A. V. Chick.  -  A former member of the drawing and plumbing staff.   Died while a prisoner of war in a Japanese P.O.W. camp.
Brighton Technical School “Sea Spray” Magazine.  1952.
CHICK, ANZLIE VIVIAN : 
Service Number – VX44421 :
Date of birth – 11 October, 1902 : 
Place of birth – LAUNCESTON TAS : 
Place of enlistment – CAULFIELD, VIC : 
​Next of Kin – NELLIE.  (Serviceperson deceased).
 
ATTESTATION FORM.
29 June, 1940.
Natural born British Subject.   
Age 38 years.
Date of birth : 11/10/1902.   
Occupation :  School Teacher.
Married.
Next of kin :  Nellie Kathleen Chick.   Wife.  167 Grange Road, Alphington, and
“St. Elmo”, King Street, Daylesford, as at 8/5/42.
Denomination :  C  of  E.
 
Taken on strength.  R.R.D.   1/8/40.
Trans from 2/23 Train Bn. Albury to Eng. Trg. D. 14/11/40.
Graded Draftsman Group 1.
Posted to 2nd. Rfts. H.Q. Corps Troops Engrs.  14/1/41.
AWL.  0615   15/3/41  to  0615   17/3/41. Admonished.   Ffts. 2 days pay.
Promoted to A/Cpl. From 16/4/41.
Transferred to 2/1  Corps Fld. Survey (4Rfts).   28/4/41.
Graded Group 1 Draughtsman (Substantive) 28/4/41.
Embarked  H.M.T.  “H.H.”  1/9/41.
Disembarked 25/9/41.
Marched out to 2/1  Survey Coy. 15/12/41.
Transferred to 2/2  Aust. Pnr. Bn.  28/1/42.
Embarked “SS Orcades” 31/1/42.
Disembarked   Batavia  18/2/42.
Reverted to Pte.  28/2/42.
Graded Group 1 Draughtsman  29/2/42.
 
Reported Missing in Action, JAVA,   -  Not known.
& transferred to “X” List, 30 Apr, 42.
MISSING.  7/3/42.  
1/10/42  Prev. rep. Missing now bel.  P.O.W.
11/4/45.   (From whom received) PW – SWPA. 
Died of illness – (Tropical ulcers) whilst P.W. on or after 1/8/43.
Signed :  Lieut.  xx  for Officer in Charge Victoria Echelon and Records.

REBURIAL  RETURN.
No. VX 44421.   Pte. Chick  A.V.   Unit 2/2 PN. BN.   Location Report 34/5.7.23.
Means of Identification  -   CROSS ON GRAVE.
Date of Death  3.9.43.    Date of Reburial  Dec. 45.
Exhumed from   APALON POW CEMETERY  NO 15.  G 57.
Place of Reburial  THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY    A5/A14.
Burial Reg.  Page No.  146/3937.
Signed xx  (Capt) Unit  34 Aust. War Graves Unit.  OC  34 Aust. War Graves Unit.
 
National Archives of Australia.
Barcode : 6118666.
Series No : B883.
Control Code : VX44421.


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B.T.S. Athletics Team. c. 1924. V. Chick in suit in centre.
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Brighton Technical School Old Boys’ Football Club, 1929. FRONT ROW: C. Hindson, W. Secker, F. Macaulay. SECOND ROW FROM FRONT: G. Dodd, W. Johnston (Sec.), R. Goldsworthy (Captain), F. M. Smith (Pres.), S. Phelps, (V. Capt.), V. Chick (Coach), C. Sutton. SECOND ROW FROM BACK: J. Shields, J. Robbie, R. Thoms, R. Bolwell, F. Biencourt, R. Bleckley, C. Taylor, L. Adams (Trnr.). BACK ROW: D. Johnson, J. Thornton, L. Gordon, N. Darroch, W. Woolfe, R. Shaw.
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BACK ROW: D. Johnson, H. Vickers, N. Darroch, W. Woolfe, F. Biencourt, L. Smith, R. Thoms, R. Bleckley, J. Thornton, A. Gibson, L. Adams. CENTRE ROW: E. Secker, (crouching and wearing a white jumper), V. Chick, W. Johnson (Sec.), S. Phelps (Capt.), F. Smith (Pres.), J Robbie (Vice-Capt.), G. Cowl, (Coach), C. Taylor, J. Shields (crouching and wearing a white jumper). FRONT ROW: F. Macaulay, H. Dudgeon, W. Secker, R. Hoggins, C. Hindson.
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ENVELOPE FROM THE PAST
Letter sent to New York, (14 March 1931), by Anzlie Vivian CHICK, a former member of the drawing and plumbing staff at Brighton Technical School. Anzlie died a prisoner of the Japanese in Thailand in World War II. 

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​ANZLIE VIVIAN CHICK 
HIS DEATH AT APALON, THAILAND.
The World War II Service Record of Anzlie Vivian Chick, formerly a member of the Drawing and Plumbing Staff at the Brighton Technical School, Victoria, records few details of his life after he was reported ‘missing’ and believed to be a prisoner of war, in April, 1942.
 
The key words in his Service Record that give a clue to his whereabouts at the time of his death in late August or early September, 1943 are  :   “Apalon POW Cemetery”.
 
A search of the Internet, using the words “Apalon Thailand” revealed a most informative book which provided details of the events that took place at Apalon, Thailand during World War II.   The book title is    –   “The Thailand Burma Railway 1942 – 1946   -  Documents and Selected Writings”.   Edited by Paul H. Kratoska.   Volume 1  Summary Accounts, published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York.    (Only extracts from this book have been uploaded to the Internet.)
 
Page 65.   Other cemeteries located this day were 55 Kilo (KHON KHAN) – 262 graves, mainly Dutch and Australian;  60 Kilo – 46 graves;  70 Kilo (MEZALI or KAMI MEZALI) in beautiful condition;  MEILOE – 15 Australian graves;  and APARON or APALON with one large and one small cemetery.   It was at APARON that a Japanese officer said, “Let the men die, it doesn’t matter”.
 
Page 99.   Travelling along this line we passed many places that bring back sad memories of terrible times of suffering, terror and misery, when we lost hundreds of comrades in arms who perished from hunger and deprivation, broken under the yoke of Japanese slavery.
 
These are places with unpronounceable names, which figure on no map and now consist of no more than emplacements and a few sheds made from bamboo and atap.   Places like Tamarkan, Aruhiru, Wampe, Tha Sao, Tampie, Khai Sai Yokoe, Tintin, Hindate, Pramkasi, Djiyale, Keungluay and in Burma Tanbyuyzayat, Massale, APALON, Anar Kwan Redpu, Wagale and many others – names that evoke many memories of long months of struggle and suffering, in which all only knew one desire : peace and freedom.
 
​Page 243.     53.  The line was divided in the following sections :
Nonpladuk                             (km        0.000)
Kan(chana)buri                      (km      50.320)
Wampo                                  (km    114.040)
Kinsayok                                (km    171.720)
Batang Kasi                           (km    208.110)
Nike                                       (km    281.880)
APALON                                (km    322.090)
Thanbyazajat                         (km    414.916)
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In each of those sections is one and in some cases are two locomotive stations with ample facilities for the revision and repairs of locomotives and upkeep of wagons.
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(Banpongmai – Kanburi – Wampo – Kinsayok – Batang Kasi – Nike – APALON – Thanbyazajat – Mudon – Moulmein.)

Page 277.              PRISONERS BECOME RAILWAY LABOURERS. 
Movement of prisoners-of-war to become labourers on the railway began on 14 May, 1942, when A Force, 3,000 Australians under Brigadier A. L. Varley, AIF, embarked from Singapore harbor for Moulmein, and were joined off Malacca Straits by the British Sumatra POW Battalion under Capt. Dudley, P. Apthorp, R. Norfolks who were an escape party from Singapore who got no further than Sumatra. ………………………..
 
On 21 October they re-embarked at Mergui, disembarked at Moulmein and were entrained in cattle trucks to Thanbyuzayat to work as labourers on the Burma end of the Thai-Burma Railway.   The Japanese 5 Railway Regiment had already cut the central trace of the line and had begun building work camps, which eventually they sited at Wegali, Thetkaw, Hlepark, Kum Knit Kway, Retpu, Anankwin, Khonkhau, Tarngzun, APALON and Chaugena (just off the Thai side of the frontier).
 
Page 282.   On the Burma side the engineers gave priority to work on the three bridges over the Zami, Mezali and APALON rivers, steel bridges with by-pass wooden bridges and extended the section of track as far as the Three Pagodas Pass.
 
Page 284.   By October the Thai and the Burma sides were nearing completion.   There were 688 bridges but only seven of them were of steel with concrete piers, one of these being that over the Maekhlaung at Tha Makham, the other six in Burma, over the Zami, APALON, Mezali, Winyaur, Khonkhau and Myettaur rivers.  Few of the others were over 100 metres, but they included the double plank viaduct of Arrow Hill. ………………………..
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OPENING CEREMONY ON 25 OCTOBER.
On 17 October, 1943, the Burma and the Thai sides linked up at Konkvita, 262.87 km., in deep forest, about 40 km southwest of the Thai-Burma frontier.   Locomotive No. C5631, decked with two ‘poached egg’ flags, moved up on the Thai side.   Major-General Ishida Hideguma presided at the ‘opening-to-traffic’ ceremony held on 25 October at which Lt.-Col Sasaki, CO of 5 Railway Regiment, and Lt-Col Inai, CO of 9 Railway Regiment, drove specially made gun-metal dog-spikes into an ebony sleeper.
 
Page 285.   137.   Though no difficulties were experienced the situation between APALON (km 332) and Moulmein was less well in hand than between Nonpladuk and APALON.   The 9th. Railway Regiment did its work but was seriously handicapped by the fact that nobody could stop the Burmese coolies who were in their own land from deserting.

End of extracts 
……………………………………

​​The World War II Service Record of Anzlie Vivian Chick records he  “Died of illness (Tropical ulcers) whilst P.W. on or after 1 – 8 – 1943”.
 
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission database records that “Anzlie Vivian Chick, VX 44421, died on the 3rd. September, 1943”.
 
Let us not forget the sacrifices made by Australia’s service men and women who served in World War II and, in particular, the sacrifice made by Anzlie Vivian Chick, formerly a drawing and plumbing teacher from Brighton Technical School, Berwick Street, Brighton, Victoria.

The Brighton Technical School for boys was located at Berwick Street,
​Brighton, Victoria, Australia. The Brighton Technical School for girls was located at
45 Cochrane Street, Brighton, Victoria, Australia. 

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