Tasmanian War Casualties

World War 11 Casualties

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Absolom Gordon

Service Number TX8281 Death Date 23/10/1943 Place of Death While POW Siam Cause of Death llness, dysentry & beri beri Burial Takanoon Cemetery

Burial Takanoon Cemetery Born 19^th October 1921 and on enlistment was posted to 2/29 Infantry Battalion. Was captured by the Japanese in Thailand and became ill with beri beri and dysentery whilst a Prisoner of War. His date of death was given as 23^rd. October 1943 and he was reburied at the Kanburi War Cemetery.

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