Cemetery plot location: A-07-10
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| Classification: | POW |
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| Identification number: | PWJA (USA) 147316 |
| Surname: | TAKANO |
| Other names: | Tadao |
| Plate name: | TAKANO, TADAO | AKA (Also Known As): | Sadao TAKANO |
| Name in kanji: | 高野 忠雄 |
| Grave location: | A-07-10 |
| Date of birth: | 1915-10-10 |
| Place of birth: | 47 Nakasumi-machi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Japan |
| Private address: | 47 Nakasumi-machi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Japan |
| Business address: | Not recorded |
| Military rank: | Superior Private |
| Unit regimental number: | Army, 15 Field Artillery Regiment, 7 Compay, 1 Platoon, 1 Section |
| Date of capture: | 1944-04-01 |
| Place of capture: | Near Kometto, New Guinea |
| Reason for internment: | Prisoner of war |
| Camp interned: | Cowra |
| Date interned: | 1944-04-17 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Suffering from diarrhoea |
| Trade or occupation: | cafe |
| 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: | Misa TAKANO |
| Address of next of kin: | 47 Nakasumi-machi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Japan |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Mother |
| Father’s name: | Kentaro TAKANO (deceased) |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Hisa HAGIWARA |
| Identification: | Height 5'3", 115 lbs, sallow complexion, black hair, brown eyes, appendix incision on right side of abdomen |
| Movement report: | TAKANO was transferred from Gaythorne to Cowra on 31 May 1944. He was hospitalised with malaria in June and with dyspepsia in August. He rejoined the camp on 1 August. He was admitted to the hospital with gun shot wounds on his left chest and with a shattered leg on 5 August, and died on 6 August. |
| Cause of death: | Gun shot wounds to his left chest |
| Date of death: | 1944-08-06 |
| Cremation or burial: | Burial |
| Date of burial: | 1944-08-09 |
| Place of first burial: | Cowra |
| Extra information: | TAKANO’s record from the Office of Australian War Grave records his date of death as 5 August 1944, but the report from the National Archives of Australia (NAA: MP1103/1) records it as being on 6 August. There is a discrepancy in the given forms of TAKANO’s mother’s name.
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