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02-02-18, 12:57
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War casualites
My mother had mentioned to me over the years, she knew a chap who was killed in New Guinea during WW2. I only just found out the chaps name this week because I found this photo taken in 1940 when my mother was 16 .
Turns out this young chap was in Lark Force at Rabaul , his rank was gunner . He died as a POW when the ship Montevideo Maru was sunk by a US submarine. There is more. Going through the naa files I found this chaps records . Well, his brother was in the 2/2 Pioneer battalion , this unit initially served in Syria. The 2/2 was at sea heading back home , but the ship was diverted to Java . The brother was captured, survived the Thai death railway and then he was shipped to Japan where he died in Sept. 1944.
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1940 cab 11 C8 1940 Morris-Commercial PU 1941 Morris-Commercial CS8 1940 Chev. 15cwt GS Van ( Aust.) 1942-45 Jeep salad 
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