Australian Soldiers, Memorials and Military History

Patrick Andreas Ohlstrom - an animated short film

Click on the "Education " tab above to view the animated short film

of Patrick Ohlstrom's journey though the Great War & associated resources.

Today's Honour Roll

June

Today's Honour Roll recognizes 185 Australians who fell on this day in history.

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Name	Date of Death	Conflict
HUNT, Raymond Henry	17 Jun 1968	Vietnam War
BANKS, James	17 Jun 1941	World War 2
COPE, George Wilfred	17 Jun 1918	World War 1
SMITH, Milton Frederick (DFC)	17 Jun 1944	World War 2
MARSHALL, Leonard Arthur	17 Jun 1918	World War 1

The lone POW in the Sydney War Cemetery

Private Jasper Nelson Schwerdt died of acute cardiac beriberi on 11 June 1945, interned as a prisoner of the Japanese in Sakata, Japan. His ashes, however, a held at the Sydney War Cemetery. Of the 736 soldiers whose remains are held at the cemetery, Jasper is the only prisoner of war. The Office of Australian War Graves advised that it knew of no other Prisoner of War whose remains made it back to Australia.

More on Jasper Nelson Schwerdt, including eighteen digitised letters from his time as a prisoner of war, and records of his service as part of the 2nd/2nd Reserve Motor Transport Company, are available on his tribute profile under ‘Links and Documents’: HERE