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HOGAN, Raymond

Other Name:	Hogan, Ernest James - CWGC
Service Number:	TX8368
Enlisted:	4 November 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia , 13 July 1916
Home Town:	Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness, Timor, 14 April 1942, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 15. Row A. Grave 14. Inscription: "YOUNGEST SON OF FREDRICK THOMAS AND THE LATE ESTHER MAY HOGAN "
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Launceston 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, TX8368
4 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX8368, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
22 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Captured and detained by the Japanese Occupation Force, at POW Camp Usapa (Oesapa) Besar, Kupang Province, Timor.
14 Apr 1942:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, Member of Sparrow Force died on this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese. Nature of death recorded as maniac depressive physocis.

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Fredrick Thomas Hogan and Esther Mary Hogan, of Hobart, Tasmania.