Cemetery plot location: A-07-07
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| Classification: | POW |
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| Identification number: | PWJA 145248 |
| Surname: | MIYAMOTO |
| Other names: | Kenzo |
| Plate name: | MIYAMOTO, KENZO | AKA (Also Known As): | None |
| Name in kanji: | 宮本 健三 |
| Grave location: | A-07-07 |
| Date of birth: | 1909-05-04 |
| Place of birth: | 53 Asaura-mura, Hiraka-gun, Akita-ken, Japan |
| Private address: | 53 Asaura-mura, Hiraka-gun, Akita-ken, Japan |
| Business address: | Not recorded |
| Military rank: | Leading Corporal |
| Unit regimental number: | Army, Army Supply Corps Kado Company |
| Date of capture: | 1943-01-12 |
| Place of capture: | Giruwa, New Guinea |
| Reason for internment: | Prisoner of war |
| Camp interned: | Cowra |
| Date interned: | 1943-02-23 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Suffering from malaria |
| Trade or occupation: | Farmer |
| 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: | Married |
| Next of kin: | Kane MIYAMOTO |
| Address of next of kin: | 53 Asaura-mura, Hiraka-gun, Akita-ken, Japan |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Wife |
| Father’s name: | Not recorded |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Not recorded |
| Identification: | Height 5'2", weight 125 lbs, sallow complexion, black hair, dark eyes |
| Movement report: | MIYAMOTO was hospitalised in New Guinea with malaria. After he was interned in Gaythorne, he was hospitalised twice with malaria in March and in May. He was transferred to Cowra on 3 October 1943. In Cowra, he was hospitalised with malaria in April 1944. He died in the breakout. |
| Cause of death: | Burnt in hut |
| Date of death: | 1944-08-05 |
| Cremation or burial: | Burial |
| Date of burial: | 1944-08-09 |
| Place of first burial: | Cowra |
| Extra information: | MIYAMOTO’s records, held at the Office of Australian War Graves, are sketchy. His body, burned inside a hut, was never definitively identified. His grave plaque records that he was “Buried near this spot”.
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| Related images: | MIYAMOTO’s Allied Translator & Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report summary (pdf): |