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[FEPOW Family] [Roll of Honour] [Hell Ships] [Montevideo Maru]

 

Hell Ships

Montevideo Maru

Civilian Roll

 

Coomber, Arthur

Born New South Wales, Australia.

Medical Assistant

Kokopo

 

 

Date Captured:-

February 1942

PoW Number:-

026

 

 

Transported:-

1942/06/22

Port:-

Rabaul

Ship:-

Montevideo Maru

 

Died

Date of Death:-

1942/07/01

 

Age:-

43

 

Cause of Death:-

Drowned when SS Montevideo was sunk by USS Sturgeon.

 

Place of Death:-

Off Luzon

 

 

Loved Ones

Son of Harry and Sarah Anne Coomber; husband of Olive Florence Coomber.

 

 

Memorial

Rabaul and Montevideo Maru Memorial at Victoria, Australia

 

 

Notes:-

 

 

Source:-

MP74/1, A518, CWGC

 

 

Source File Explanation:-

MP74/1 - Williams 1946 Japanese Translated list

A518    - Family Form of Information for ‘Closure of Death’.

CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Montevideo Maru Memorial

 

 

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