Cemetery plot location: B-05-08
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| Classification: | Merchant Seaman |
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| Identification number: | PWJM 18166 |
| Surname: | TANIGUCHI |
| Other names: | Tsunesuke |
| Plate name: | TANIGUCHI, TSUNESUKE | AKA (Also Known As): | None |
| Name in kanji: | Not recorded |
| Grave location: | B-05-08 |
| Date of birth: | 1885-11-10 |
| Place of birth: | Higashimuro-gun Wakayama-ken, Japan |
| Private address: | Not recorded |
| Business address: | Not recorded |
| Military rank: | Not recorded |
| Unit regimental number: | Not recorded |
| Date of capture: | 1941-12-10 |
| Place of capture: | Darwin |
| Reason for internment: | Enemy alien |
| Camp interned: | Loveday |
| Date interned: | 1942-01-05 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Not recorded |
| Trade or occupation: | Tender |
| Length of residence in Australia: | Not recorded |
| Date of entry: | Not recorded |
| Port of disembarkation: | Not recorded |
| Ship: | Not recorded |
| Personal effects: | Not recorded |
| Religion: | Buddhist |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Marital status: | Married |
| Next of kin: | Saki TANIGUCHI |
| Address of next of kin: | Nichimukaye-cho, Higashimuro-gun, Wakayama-ken |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Wife |
| Father’s name: | Not recorded |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Not recorded |
| Identification: | Not recorded |
| Movement report: | After his arrest, TANIGUCHI was sent to Loveday via Adelaide River on 5 January 1942. He was reclassified as a Prisoner of War, and transferred to Hay on 14 May 1943. He was admitted to the hospital on 17 June 1943, and discharged on 2 July 1943. He was repeatedly admitted to the hospital for a number of times for hypertension and was placed on the 'Dangerously Ill' list on 14 February 1945. |
| Cause of death: | Chronic hypertension |
| Date of death: | 1945-02-21 |
| Cremation or burial: | Burial |
| Date of burial: | 1945-02-21 |
| Place of first burial: | Hay |
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