Cemetery plot location: B-07-01
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| Classification: | POW |
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| Identification number: | PWJA 145220 |
| Surname: | NISHIKI |
| Other names: | Hirogu |
| Plate name: | NISHIKI, HIROGU | AKA (Also Known As): | None |
| Name in kanji: | No signature |
| Grave location: | B-07-01 |
| Date of birth: | 1922-05-01 |
| Place of birth: | 3-175, Hachiman, Miyodo-gun, Tokushima-ken, Japan |
| Private address: | 3-175, Hachiman, Miyodo-gun, Tokushima-ken, Japan |
| Business address: | Not recorded |
| Military rank: | Corporal |
| Unit regimental number: | Army, Line of Communication Hospital |
| Date of capture: | 1943-01-19 |
| Place of capture: | Giruwa, New Guinea |
| Reason for internment: | Prisoner of war |
| Camp interned: | Murray Barracks, Port Moresby |
| Date interned: | 1943-02-08 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Suffering from malaria and clinical dysentery |
| Trade or occupation: | Soap store assistant |
| Length of residence in Australia: | Not recorded |
| Date of entry: | Not recorded |
| Port of disembarkation: | Not recorded |
| Ship: | Not recorded |
| Personal effects: | Nil |
| Religion: | Buddhist |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Next of kin: | Moto NISHIKI |
| Address of next of kin: | 3-175, Hachiman, Miyodo-gun, Tokushima-ken, Japan |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Father |
| Father’s name: | Moto NISHIKI |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Yoshino NISHIKI |
| Identification: | Not recorded |
| Movement report: | NISHIKI was sent to Port Moresby on 25 January 1943, and was transferred from the Prisoner of War compound to the Murray Barracks on 8 February 1943. He died at the 2/14 Australian General Hospital on 10 February 1943 with malaria and clinical dysentery. He was buried in the Townsville War Cemetery on 11 February 1943. |
| Cause of death: | Malaria, clinical dysentery |
| Date of death: | 1943-02-10 |
| Cremation or burial: | Burial |
| Date of burial: | 1943-02-11 |
| Place of first burial: | Townsville War Cemetery |
| Extra information: | NISHIKI was sent to Port Moresby on 25 January 1943. NISHIKI’s Service and Casualty form (NAA: MP1103/1) records that he was transferred to the Murray Barracks in Port Moresby on 8 January 1943, however this must have been an error, and instead, he was probably transferred on 8 February 1943. He died at the 2/14 Australian General Hospital on 10 February 1943 with malaria and clinical dysentery. He was buried in the Townsville War Cemetery on 11 February 1943.
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