Arthur Varley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian Army officer
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Place of Birth: Rookwood, New South Wales, Australia
About Arthur Varley
- 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 is presumed to have been killed in September 1944, shortly after the transport ship taking him and several hundred fellow prisoners to Japan was sunk.
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