Cemetery plot location: B-01-10
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| Classification: | Internee |
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| Identification number: | CJ 18963 |
| Surname: | SAKAMOTO |
| Other names: | Takao |
| Plate name: | SAKAMOTO, TAKAO | AKA (Also Known As): | Tagao SAKAMOTO |
| Name in kanji: | Not recorded |
| Grave location: | B-01-10 |
| Date of birth: | 1892-04-08 |
| Place of birth: | Kumamoto-ken, Japan |
| Private address: | Paagoumene, New Caledonia |
| Business address: | Paagoumene, New Caledonia |
| Military rank: | Not recorded |
| Unit regimental number: | Not recorded |
| Date of capture: | 1941-12-08 |
| Place of capture: | Paagoumene, New Caledonia |
| Reason for internment: | Enemy alien |
| Camp interned: | Hay |
| Date interned: | 1941-12-24 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Not recorded |
| Trade or occupation: | Miner |
| Length of residence in Australia: | Not recorded |
| Date of entry: | 1941-12-22 |
| Port of disembarkation: | Sydney, N.S.W. |
| Ship: | Cap des Palmes |
| Personal effects: | Nine hundred and ten (910) francs (taken by authorities at Hay) |
| Religion: | Buddhist |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Next of kin: | Genzo SAKAMOTO |
| Address of next of kin: | Morikama-mura, Kikugmi-gun, Kumamoto-ken, Japan |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Brother |
| Father’s name: | Kakuti SAKAMOTO |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Tome SAKAMOTO |
| Identification: | 5'2", 126 lbs, dark complexion, black hair, brown eyes |
| Movement report: | After having been transferred from New Caledonia, SAKAMOTO was sent to Hay on 24 November 1941. He was transferred to Loveday, then sent to the Wooloonook Wood Camp on 13 May 1943. He returned to Loveday on 31 January 1944, and was admitted to the 121 Australian General Hospital for incipient cardiac failure on 10 March 1944. |
| Cause of death: | Cardiac failure |
| Date of death: | 1944-04-11 |
| Cremation or burial: | Burial |
| Date of burial: | 1944-04-13 |
| Place of first burial: | Barmera |
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