Tasmanian War Casualties

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Brown, Maxwell Mansfield

Born 8^th November 1911 Manly New South Wales but was a registered medical officer working at the Royal Hobart Hospital when he enlisted 4^th July 1940 and was given the rank of Captain.

He was attached to the 2/40^th Battalion and sent to the Northern Territory for training and then on to Timor.

The Japanese invaded Timor on 19^th January 1942 and the allies surrendered on the 23^rd February 1942. They were hopelessly outnumbered with a force of around 3,000 to the invading Japanese force of approximately 22,000.

During captivity the medical force provided whatever support they could to the POW’s but with limited resources and facilities not a lot could be done.

In 1944 it was decided to transport the POW’s from Tanjong Priok to Pakan Baroe in order to work on the railway. Captain Max Brown was taken aboard the Junyo Maru with approximately 6500 other prisoners. Sadly on 18^th September 1944 she met with the British submarine “Tradewind” was torpedoed and sunk becoming one of the worst maritime disasters of World War 2.

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