Albert Samson HOOPER

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Service Number:	VX54751
Enlisted:	2 May 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Berrigan, New South Wales, Australia, 13 March 1916
Home Town:	Tootool, Lockhart, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Channel Contractor (Irrigation).
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 17 July 1945, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 16. Row D. Grave 12. Inscription: "HE WAS A GALLANT COMRADE LOVED BY ALL"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Wagga Wagga Cenotaph

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX54751
2 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX54751
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Captured and detained by the Japanese Occupation Force, at Tan Toey (Tantui) Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) Camp, Ambon Island.
17 Jul 1945:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Member of Gull Force, died on this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese. Nature of death recorded as beri beri.

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