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Rex Newton Munroe
1926 -
Born on the 26th of July 1926 in the town of Wauchope, NSW, Rex Worked as a factory hand prior to the war. He was a month shy of 19 when on the 18th of April 1945 he enlisted into the CMF and commenced training. Only two months after that he transferred to the AIF and was put into 18 Supply Depot Company. In November he was moved to 17th Supply Depot Company before undertaking further training in infantry tactics in February 1946.
Once completing his training, he was once more transferred, this time for good, when he was attached to 257 Australian Supply Depot. With his new unit, Rex was bound for Japan to serve as part of the post war occupation force in Hiroshima, disembarking in Kure, Japan on the 9th of April. For the most part his service in the occupation force was uneventful, save for the trouble he got in.
On the 25th of April, ANZAC DAY, he was admitted to hospital having contracted Gonorrhoea and would again be hospitalised with the same illness a month later. On the 13th of July he was charged for the first of many times with “Conduct to the prejudice of good order & military discipline” for which he was fined 5 pounds and confined to barracks for 2 weeks. In September he was hospitalised for a third time, though for abdominal pain as opposed to an STD, and on the 15th of October again for the fourth and final time (at least while in Japan) with acute appendicitis.
In the 23rd of December, he was again charged with the offence “Conduct to the prejudice of good order & military discipline” and was fined 3 pound with a week confined to barracks. Things took a more serious turn when on the 4th of January 1947, Rex was arrested and charged with assault. He was court martialled the following month and found guilty, sentenced to 30 days detention and a 10 pound fine. Not having learnt to behave, he was charged again in March, this time for failing to appear on parade.
Rex’s time in Japan finally came to an end in September when he set sail for home. He arrived in Sydney on the 4th of October 1947 and was admitted to hospital that same day with a bad case of dermatitis. Then, as if to finish on a good note, he was charged one last time with “Conduct to the prejudice of good order & military discipline”, and being AWOL, had his pay revoked, before being discharged the following month on the 8th of December.
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