Eric Stanley HOTTES

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Service Number:	NX41382
Enlisted:	3 September 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, 1 August 1907
Home Town:	Glen Innes, Glen Innes Severn, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Dredge Hand
Died:	Died at sea (Montevideo Maru), South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Memorials:	Australian Commando Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Glen Innes World War 2 Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lance Corporal, NX41382
3 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, NX41382
2 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Captured with members of the 1st Independent Company, when escaping New Ireland in the schooner, Induna Star after it was staffed and disabled by Japanese aircraft and then escorted until it was met by a Japanese destroyer and the men taken to Rabaul. On 22 June 1050 prisoners of war sailed from Rabaul in the Japanese Passenger ship, Montevideo Maru, but on 1 July the ship was sighted by an American submarine, the Sturgeon, off the coast of the Luzon, in the Philippines. Firing its torpedos, the Sturgeon sunk the Montevideo Maru - none of the prisoners of war survived including 133 men of the 1st Independent Company.
1 Jul 1942:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), NX41382

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