John Samuel Talmage details on War Memorial, Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

full name	burial date	age	birth date	relationship	notes
John Samuel Talmage	1942	67	1875		Coast Watcher on Tabar Island , New Ireland. Captured with Con Page on or about 20th June 1942. (Date found in a notebook owned by a Japanese officer who was present.) Be-headed by the Japanese 30 Nov. 1942 at Nago Island. NAA: A518 , DS16/2/1 Part 3. P18. Reported missing in Pacific Islands Monthly Nov 1942 (NAA A518 , DS16/2/1 Part 1 P.222). His body was exhumed and identified post war. Re-interned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at the Bitapaka Rabaul) War Cemetery.

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