Cemetery plot location: B-01-15
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| Classification: | POW |
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| Identification number: | PWJA (USA) 147942 |
| Surname: | ARAI |
| Other names: | Setsukichi |
| Plate name: | ARAI, SETSUKICHI | AKA (Also Known As): | None |
| Name in kanji: | 荒井 節吉 |
| Grave location: | B-01-15 |
| Date of birth: | 1939-02-04 |
| Place of birth: | Tsukasa, Kanda-gun, Tokyo-to, Japan |
| Private address: | 39, 3-chome, Yanaka-machi, Shitaya-gun, Tokyo-to, Japan |
| Business address: | Not recorded |
| Military rank: | Civilian |
| Unit regimental number: | Army, Construction Unit |
| Date of capture: | 1944-05-17 |
| Place of capture: | Dazai, New Guinea |
| Reason for internment: | Prisoner of war |
| Camp interned: | Gaythorne |
| Date interned: | 1944-07-11 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Not recorded |
| Trade or occupation: | Construction worker |
| Length of residence in Australia: | Not recorded |
| Date of entry: | Not recorded |
| Port of disembarkation: | Not recorded |
| Ship: | Not recorded |
| Personal effects: | Nil |
| Religion: | Not recorded |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Marital status: | Married |
| Next of kin: | Tetsuo WATANABE |
| Address of next of kin: | 3, 3-chome, Yanaka-machi, Shitaya-gun, Tokyo-to |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Brother-in-law |
| Father’s name: | Not recorded |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Not recorded |
| Identification: | Height 5'2", 110 lbs, sallow complexion, black hair, brown eyes |
| Movement report: | ARAI arrived in Gaythorne on 11 July 1944 from New Guinea, and was sent to the 67 Australian Camp Hospital on 14 July 1944. He died on 17 July 1944 from cardiac failure. He was cremated at the Mt Thompson crematorium on 19 July 1944. His ashes were interred in Barmera War Cemetery in August 1946. |
| Cause of death: | Cardiac failure |
| Date of death: | 1944-07-17 |
| Cremation or burial: | Cremated |
| Date of burial: | 1946-08-06 |
| Place of first burial: | Barmera War Cemetery, South Australia |
| Extra information: | ARAI’s birthday was recorded as 4 February 1939 in his records at the National Archives of Australia, however it would have been a mistake. It may have been in either 1919 or 1909. |
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