Cemetery plot location: C-01-11
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| Classification: | Internee |
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| Identification number: | QJ 16002 |
| Surname: | ARATANI |
| Other names: | Nisuke |
| Plate name: | ARATANI, NISUKE | AKA (Also Known As): | Nisuki ARATANI |
| Name in kanji: | Not recorded |
| Grave location: | C-01-11 |
| Date of birth: | 1874-05-05 |
| Place of birth: | Japan |
| Private address: | Cowley, Mourilyan |
| Business address: | Cowley, Mourilyan |
| Military rank: | Not recorded |
| Unit regimental number: | Not recorded |
| Date of capture: | 1941-12-08 |
| Place of capture: | Cowley Mourilyan |
| Reason for internment: | Enemy alien |
| Camp interned: | Loveday |
| Date interned: | 1942-01-03 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Not recorded |
| Trade or occupation: | Labourer |
| Length of residence in Australia: | 44 years (spent 10 years in Innisfail, 21 years in Cairns, 10 years in Atherton and 3 years in Mourilyan, Queensland) |
| Date of entry: | 1897-06-12 |
| Port of disembarkation: | Mourilyan Harbour |
| Ship: | Sagami Maru |
| Personal effects: | Mattress left at Mourilyan Sugar Mill |
| Religion: | Buddhist |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Next of kin: | Kiyamatsu NOMURA |
| Address of next of kin: | Hiroshima-ken, Japan |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Cousin |
| Father’s name: | Sosuke ARATANI (Deceased) |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Fumi ISHIDA (Deceased) |
| Identification: | 5'1", 8 stone, dark complexion, black going grey, brown eyes, vaccination marks on upper right arm and on upper left arm each, mole on right eyebrow and right of right eye |
| Movement report: | ARATANI was sent to Hay via Gaythorne on 3 January 1942. He was transferred to Loveday on 12 May 1943 as a result of reorganisation of camps due to prisoner reclassification. He was admitted to the Barmera Base hospital on 20 January 1944. |
| Cause of death: | Myocardial degeneration |
| Date of death: | 1944-01-29 |
| Cremation or burial: | Burial |
| Date of burial: | 1944-01-30 |
| Place of first burial: | Barmera |
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