Cemetery plot location: A-04-30
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| Classification: | POW |
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| Identification number: | PWJA (USA) 147003 |
| Surname: | INOUE |
| Other names: | Yoshio |
| Plate name: | INOUE, YOSHIO | AKA (Also Known As): | Yoshio INOUYE; Kozo YUICHI |
| Name in kanji: | 井上 由雄；湯市 好三 |
| Grave location: | A-04-30 |
| Date of birth: | 1922-09-29 |
| Place of birth: | 35 4-chome, Kamifukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Japan; 31 Yoida, Izushi-cho, Izushi-gun, Hyogo-ken, Japan |
| Private address: | 35 4-chome, Kamifukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Japan; 31 Yoida, Izushi-cho, Izushi-gun, Hyogo-ken, Japan |
| Business address: | Not recorded |
| Military rank: | 1st Class Private |
| Unit regimental number: | Army, 17 Division, Infantry (medical), 53 Regiment, 1 Battalion, 4 Company |
| Date of capture: | 1943-12-30 |
| Place of capture: | Near Tuwali, New Guinea; Sumeru |
| Reason for internment: | Prisoner of war |
| Camp interned: | Cowra |
| Date interned: | 1944-01-03 |
| Health condition on arrival: | Not recorded |
| Trade or occupation: | Clerk |
| 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: | Taro YUICHI; Yoshijiro INOUE |
| Address of next of kin: | 35 4-chome, Kamifukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Japan; 35 4-chome, Kamifukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Japan |
| Relationship to next of kin: | Father |
| Father’s name: | Taro YUICHI; Yoshijiro |
| Father’s occupation: | Not recorded |
| Mother’s maiden name: | Yasu YOSHIDA |
| Identification: | Gunshot wounds on calf of his left leg, height and weight not recorded |
| Movement report: | INOUE was transferred from Gaythorne to Cowra on 20 March 1944. He was hospitalised in the Camp hospital on 27 March 1944 with malaria and discharged on 30 March. He died in the breakout. |
| Cause of death: | Gun shot wound to abdomen |
| Date of death: | 1944-08-05 |
| Cremation or burial: | Burial |
| Date of burial: | 1944-08-08 |
| Place of first burial: | Cowra |
| Extra information: | INOUE gave two sets of addresses and two sets of father’s names and signed under two different names in kanji characters.
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| Related images: | INOUE’s Allied Translator & Interpreter Section (ATIS) interrogation report summary (pdf): |