WW2_Casualties

World War 11 Casualties

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Stephens Albert Arthur

Born 3^rd December 1915 Sheffield Tasmania to William Charles and Edith Rose Stephens (nee Powell) he was a labourer living at Kentish when he enlisted in the AIFAnd was posted to the 2/40^th Battalion.

He was a prisoner of war and was taken on board the “Tamahoko Maru” which was transporting POW’s to work in the factories in Japan when, close to Japan, she exploded after being torpedoed by the US submarine USS Tang. Of the 267 Australian POW’s on board only 72 survived.

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Tasmanian War Casualties, Honouring the past, building understanding.