Cemetery plot location: A-02-06
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| Classification: | POW |
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| Identification number: | PWJA 145061 |
| Surname: | YAMASHITA |
| Other names: | Nobuyuki |
| Plate name: | YAMASHITA NOBUYUKI | AKA (Also Known As): | Nubuyuki YAMASHITA |
| Name in kanji: | 山下 信行 |
| Grave location: | A-02-06 |
| Date of birth: | 1917-04-26 |
| Place of birth: | 1161 Sumiyoshi-cho, Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima-ken, Japan |
| Private address: | 1161 Sumiyoshi-cho, Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima-ken, Japan |
| Business address: | Not recorded |
| Military rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Unit regimental number: | Army, Yazawa Butai, 1 Battalion, 2 Company, 1 Platoon |
| Date of capture: | 1942-12-09 |
| Place of capture: | Near Gona, New Guinea |
| Reason for internment: | Prisoner of war |
| Camp interned: | Cowra |
| Date interned: | 1943-01-07 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Not recorded |
| Trade or occupation: | Pump construction |
| 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: | Shomatsu YAMASHITA |
| Address of next of kin: | 1161 Sumiyoshi-cho, Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima-ken, Japan |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Father |
| Father’s name: | Shomatsu YAMASHITA |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Not recorded |
| Identification: | Height 5'3", 125 lbs, sallow complexion, black hair, dark eyes |
| Movement report: | YAMASHITA was hospitalised at the 112 Australian General Hospital for a week in Brisbane on 29 December 1942 with a gun shot wound to his left shoulder and a fractured scapula. He was then hospitalised with malaria in January. He was transferred to Cowra on 12 March 1943. He was admitted to the 15 Australian Camp Hospital in Cowra in March and in May (no causes recorded). 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: | YAMASHITA’s Allied Translator & Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report summary (pdf): |