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NX59145
Private
Edward James Wallace Redgrave
Australian Infantry
A.I.F. 2/19 Bn.
Japanese POW
Being transported on the Rakuyo Maru which left Singapore for Japan on the 6th September 1944 carrying 1318 prisoners, 600 British and 718 Australians.
Died
Age: 28
12th September 1944
When the Rakuyo Maru was torpedoed and sunk by US submarine Sealion off East Hainan island, Lat 18.0 N Lon 114.0E., at around 5:00am.
1159 prisoners were lost.
Loved Ones
Son of Walter James Redgrave and Elsie Annie Redgrave, of Balmain, New South Wales
Memorial
Panel 12.
LABUAN MEMORIAL
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