Cemetery plot location: A-05-14
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| Classification: | POW |
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| Identification number: | PWJA 100007 |
| Surname: | FUJITA |
| Other names: | Shigeshi |
| Plate name: | FUJITA, SHIGESHI | AKA (Also Known As): | Shigeshi FUGITA |
| Name in kanji: | Signed in alphabetic script |
| Grave location: | A-05-14 |
| Date of birth: | 1920-08-04 |
| Place of birth: | Fukuoka-ken, Japan |
| Private address: | Fukuoka-ken, Japan |
| Business address: | Not recorded |
| Military rank: | 3rd Class Petty Officer |
| Unit regimental number: | Navy, Yayoi (Wireless Transmitter Operator) |
| Date of capture: | 1942-09-23 |
| Place of capture: | Normanby Island |
| Reason for internment: | Prisoner of war |
| Camp interned: | Cowra |
| Date interned: | 1943-02-05 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Wounds on his right leg (hit in two places by machine gun fire), which caused muscle contraction, resulting in the right leg being shorter than the left by approximately 2 inches |
| Trade or occupation: | Wireless operator |
| 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: | Segawa FUJITA |
| Address of next of kin: | Fukuoka-ken, Japan |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Father |
| Father’s name: | Segawa FUJITA |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Not recorded |
| Identification: | Not recorded |
| Movement report: | FUJITA was transferred from Gaythorne to Cowra on 4 April 1943. He was detained for 28 days because he refused to be photographed. He died in the breakout. |
| Cause of death: | Suicide, strangulation by hanging |
| Date of death: | 1944-08-05 |
| Cremation or burial: | Burial |
| Date of burial: | 1944-08-07 |
| Place of first burial: | Cowra |
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| Related images: | FUJITA’s Allied Translator & Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report summary (pdf):
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