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Whittaker, James Robert

    Date of birth:
    December 14th, 1908 (Dorrigo, New South Wales (Aus.))
    Date of death:
    February 20th, 1942 (Tawiri/Laha, Ambon (N.I.))
    Mentioned on:
    Commonwealth Memorial of the Missing Ambon
    Service number:
    NX72770
    Nationality:
    Australian

    Biography

    Lived in Australia. Son of James Ernest Whitaker, b. 1869 Wollongong, New South Wales - d. 1955 Grafton, New South Wales and Esther Sinclair. Corporal Australian Army Service Corps Gull Force (AASC) with the service number NX72770. James was executed. Whitaker is commemorated on the Commonwealth Memorial for the Missing in Ambon, column 6 and the Roll of Honour of the Australian War Memorial in Campbell/Canberra, panel 85. See also Adams, Robert George.

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    • - Kooistra Archive

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