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Sumatra Railway

 

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Lance Corporal (Driver)

Booth, Harold Vernon (Hook or Nook)

Born:-

14 November 1907 in Western Australia

 

Nationality:-

Australian

 

 

AIF

2/4 M.G. Battalion (‘B’ Company)

 

 

Captured:-

1942/03/08, Batavia, Java

 

 

Died

Death:-

1945/04/15

 

Age:-

37

 

Cemetery:-

Camp 2, 500M east of 4KM point from Pekanbaru, Sumatra

 

Grave Number:-

96

 

 

 

Loved Ones:-

Son of George and Freda Evelyn Booth; husband of Audrey Booth, of Armadale, Western Australia

 

 

Memorial:-

Jakarta War Cemetery

 

Plaque:-

1. D. 19.

 

 

 

Notes:-

Occupation Farmhand and Miner. Enlisted 1940/10/23. 'Blackforce' Java. Java Party 22. Transported 1944/06/07 in  Elizabeth to Siak River. Died of Beri-Beri, 1945/04/15 at Paken Baroe.

 

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