Cemetery plot location: A-06-23
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| Classification: | POW |
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| Identification number: | PWJA 145464 |
| Surname: | FUJITA |
| Other names: | Yoshitoku |
| Plate name: | FUJITA, YOSHITAKU * | AKA (Also Known As): | Yoshitaku FUJITA; Yoshitoko FUJITA |
| Name in kanji: | 藤田 芳徳 |
| Grave location: | A-06-23 |
| Date of birth: | Not recorded |
| Place of birth: | Higashi Santo-mura, Keiso-gun, Wakayama-ken, Japan |
| Private address: | Higashi Santo-mura, Keiso-gun, Wakayama-ken, Japan |
| Business address: | Not recorded |
| Military rank: | Superior Private |
| Unit regimental number: | Army, 21 Mixed Independent Artillery Brigade |
| Date of capture: | 1943-03-09~10 |
| Place of capture: | Trobriand Island area |
| Reason for internment: | Prisoner of war |
| Camp interned: | Cowra |
| Date interned: | 1943-03-31 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Not recorded |
| 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: | Single |
| Next of kin: | Heitaro FUJITA |
| Address of next of kin: | Higashi Santo-mura, Keiso-gun, Wakayama-ken, Japan |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Father |
| Father’s name: | Heitaro FUJITA |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Not recorded |
| Identification: | Not recorded |
| Movement report: | FUJITA was hospitalised in May 1943 in Gaythorne with malaria, and twice with malaria in Cowra. He died in the breakout. |
| Cause of death: | Gun shot wounds to skull and right leg |
| 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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