Tasmanian War Casualties

World War 11 Casualties

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Thank you from Gravesites of Tasmania.

Arnold Wason Herbert Watsford

Service Number TX3042 Death Date 4/06/1944 Place of Death torpedoing Jap transport Cause of Death Drowned Burial

Born 29 July 1910 Kindred Tasmania to Henry James and Alice Arnold, was a Sergeant with the 2/3^rd Machine Gun Battalion. He was a prisoner of war on board the “Tamahoko Maru” which was sunk 24 June 1944.

He is commemorated on the Singapore War Memorial

See TAMAHOKO MARU Sunk 24^th June 1944

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