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

Hell Ships

Montevideo Maru

Service Personnel Roll

NX51008

Gunner

Excell, Ernest Thomas

Royal Australian Artillery

A.I.F. 17 Anti/Tank Battery

(A.I.F. were Lark Force)

Born:-

Western Australia

Captured:-

Date Captured:-

January - March 1942

Number:-

Unknown

Transported:-

1942/06/22

Port:-

Rabaul

Ship:-

Montevideo Maru

Died

Date of Death:-

1942/07/01

Age:-

Cause of Death:-

Drowned when Montevideo Maru was sunk by USS Sturgeon

Place of Death:-

Off Luzon

Loved Ones

(SERVED AS MUNRO). SON OF ERNEST GEORGE AND ALICE MAUDE MARY EXCELL, OF MAYLANDS, WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

Memorial

RABAUL MEMORIAL

Panel 3.

Notes:-

Not on Japanese Translated A14143/1 List.

Source:-

CWGC, AWM147

Source File Explanation:-

CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves all Australian deaths listed on 1942/07/01

A14143/1- Williams 1946 Japanese Translated list by NAA60 in 2010

AWM147 - Australian War Memorial Records

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