HERMAN, Isaac
| Service Number: | F2692/21 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 September 1939, Fremantle, WA |
| Last Rank: | Able Seaman |
| Last Unit: | HMAS Perth (I) D29 WW2 |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 13 January 1921 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Highgate State School |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Illness, Thailand, 24 August 1943, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery 1 J 63 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, East Fremantle HMAS Perth (I) Memorial, WA Jewish War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Able Seaman, F2692/21, HMAS Perth (I) D29 WW2 | |
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| 4 Sep 1939: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, F2692/21, HMAS Perth (I) D29 WW2, Fremantle, WA |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Joseph and Gertrude Herman, of Perth, Western Australia.
"FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. EVER IN OUR HEARTS"
PERTH SURVIVOR
IN JAVA
It is just two years ago tomorrow since the cheery jack tar in the picture, Able Seaman Isaac Herman, backed Cheery Jack and won £10 on the Grand National Hurdle at Flemington. Yesterday, his parents were just as thrilled as he was then, for they received word from the Department of the Navy to say that their son was a prisoner of war in Java. It is just over 16 months since Isaac's ship H.M.A.S. Perth called here and Isaac reboarded her in the hope that he would get leave soon afterwards, for his 21st birthday.
A few days later, however, word came through that the Perth had been sunk.
Since then, Mr and Mrs J. Herman, of 174 Palmerston Street, Perth, had little hope that their son was alive. Yesterday's official letter was the first definite word they had had. Isaac, now 22, was born in Perth, educated at Highgate State School. Before the war he was a salesman at Worth's, and in his spare time, a keen amateur dancing star. He won two cups in modern dancing competitions in Perth. For some time he was in the Maccabean Soccer Team.
Isaac's young brother Hirmen, just 17½, is also hoping to join the Navy, but Mrs Herman is reluctant to let him go to sea.
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