Cemetery plot location: A-07-27
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Classification: | POW |
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Identification number: | PWJA (USA) 147186 |
Surname: | SATO |
Other names: | Masatsugu |
Plate name: | SATO, MASATSUGU | AKA (Also Known As): | Masatsuga SATO |
Name in kanji: | 佐藤 正次 |
Grave location: | A-07-27 |
Date of birth: | 1920-02-26 |
Place of birth: | 13, 3-chome, Nakakamata-cho, Kamata-ku, Tokyo-shi, Japan |
Private address: | 15, 2-chome, Aza, Okute-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, Japan |
Business address: | Not recorded |
Military rank: | Corporal |
Unit regimental number: | Army, 17 Division 53 Infantry Regiment, 2 Field Hospital |
Date of capture: | 1944-03-24 |
Place of capture: | Near Talasea, New Britain |
Reason for internment: | Prisoner of war |
Camp interned: | Cowra |
Date interned: | 1944-04-04 |
Health condition on arrival: | Not recorded |
Trade or occupation: | Printer |
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: | Yoshiharu SATO |
Address of next of kin: | 15, 2-chome, Aza, Okute-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, Japan |
Relationship to next of kin: | Father |
Father’s name: | Yoshiharu SATO |
Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
Mother’s maiden name: | Chie ISHIGURO |
Identification: | Height 5'1", weight 52 kgs, sallow complexion, black hair, brown eyes |
Movement report: | SATO arrived in Gaythorne on 7 April 1944, and on the 9th was sent to the 67 Camp Hospital with a gun shot wound. He was discharged on 20 April. He was transferred to Cowra on 3 June 1944. He was hospitalised at the 15 Camp Hospital with malaria on 9 June 1944 for three days. He died in the breakout. |
Cause of death: | Gun shot wound to neck |
Date of death: | 1944-08-05 |
Cremation or burial: | Burial |
Date of burial: | 1944-08-08 |
Place of first burial: | Cowra |
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Related images: | SATO’s Allied Translator & Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report summary (pdf): |