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QX9700
Sapper
John Douglas Hession
1916/10/16 - Born Brisbane, Australia
Son of Joseph and Charlotte Hession
Royal Australian Engineers
2/11 Field Company
Service
The Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) is a Corps of the Australian Army (although the word corps does not appear in their name or on their badge). The Corps was formed by the amalgamation of the various engineer corps of the States and territories of Australia.
The Engineers also adopted the Royal Engineers practice of calling their private soldiers "Sappers", in recognition of the fact that the very earliest engineers had been primarily concerned with driving saps (tunnels) both towards the enemy lines, and underneath fortifications.
Part of ‘Gull Force’ who arrived in Ambon 17th December 1941.
Gull force was made up of the 2/21st Battalion and ‘C’ troop 18th Anti-Tank Battery, three sections of the 2/11th Field Coy, one section Australian Army Service Corps, 2/12th Field Ambulance Detachment, 23rd Special Dental Unit, and 104 Light Aid Detachment.
In the night of 10th January 1942 the Japanese landed on Ambon.
Following the Japanese invasion of Ambon, several hundred Australian and Dutch prisoners were executed by Japanese forces at Laha airfield in February 1942.
Died
Age 25
20th February 1942
John died at Laha, Ambon.
Loved Ones
Son of Joseph and Charlotte Hession, of Toombul, Queensland, Australia
Memorial
Column 1.
Ambon Memorial
Indonesia
Information
FEPOW Family
Commonwealth War Grave Commission
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