Norman Francis KARKOE

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KARKOE, Norman Francis

Service Number:	NX40344
Enlisted:	19 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Crookwell, New South Wales, Australia, 9 January 1919
Home Town:	Crookwell, Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Station-hand
Died:	Injuries (Accident), Cowra, New South Wales, Australia, 24 November 1945, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Cowra War Cemetery, NSW Plot D Row C Grave 8
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Cowra and District War Memorial WW2

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX40344
19 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, NX40344, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
19 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX40344, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Norman Francis Karkoe NX40344 was taken on strength of the 2/19th Infantry Battalion on 26 April 1941 and reported missing in Malaya on 16 February 1942. He was reported as a Prisoner of War in Osaka, Japan on 14 July 1943 and was recovered from the Japanese on 26 September 1945

He died of injuries sustained from a motor cycle accident near Cowra on 24 November 1945

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