Robert COSTIN

COSTIN, Robert

Service Number: B/2339
Enlisted: 17 November 1939
Last Rank: Able Seaman
Last Unit: HMAS Perth (I) D29 WW2
Born: Brisbane, Queensland, 26 November 1920
Home Town: Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Died of Illness (POW of Japan - Cholera), Thailand, 19 July 1943, aged 22 years
Cemetery: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Coll. grave 1. Q. 2-78.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, East Fremantle HMAS Perth (I) Memorial, Kangaroo Point H.M.A.S. Moreton Honour Roll
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World War 2 Service

17 Nov 1939: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Ordinary Seaman, B/2339, HMAS Penguin (IV) 1939-1940/HMAS Brisbane 1940-1942/HMAS Moreton (I) 1942-1994 (Depot), Brisbane, Queensland
17 Nov 1939: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, B/2339
9 Jul 1943: Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, B/2339, HMAS Perth (I) D29 WW2, Prisoners of War

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Mrs N. Coslin, of 12 Gustavson Street, Annerley, has been notified that her husband, Able Seaman Robert Costin, member of the crew of HMAS Perth, died of illness in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Thailand on July 19, 1913. He was the son of Mrs E. Costin, corner of Brown and James Streets, New Farm.