AUSTRALIAN COMMANDOS Bedkober, Douglas Norman

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Bedkober ​

• FORENAME

Douglas Norman ​

• UNIT

M Special Unit (Infantry) ​

• RANK

Lieutenant ​

• NUMBER

NX26676 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

4th January 1944 ​

• AGE

25 ​

• GRAVESITE

Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea E.D.15 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 20.04.1918, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia​

son of Carl Francis and Ethel Grace Bedkober, Vaucluse, New South Wales​

20.06.1940 enlisted Paddington, New South Wales​

16.06.1943 captured​

died of illness Rabaul whilst POW​

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