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ITEM FORM
Item title: Service records and notification certificates
Title (romaji): Jijitsu shômeisho/gennin shômeisho tsuzuri
Title (kanji)
Location:Australian War Memorial (AWM 82 1/2/500042)
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AJRP details
AJRP module: Australian War Memorial official records
AJRP series: AWM 82 captured Japanese documents
AJRP sub-series: ATIS material registered as B documents
AJRP folder: Reports and service records from the 238th Regt
Location details
Institution: Australian War Memorial
Call number: AWM 82 1/2/500042
Inst. series: AWM 82
Inst. sub-series: 1/2/- Items registered by ATIS as "B" documents
Item: 1/2/500042
Item qualities
Quantity / desc: 1 book, approx. 18 mimeographed pages with entries in ink and carbon copy
Access: Open
Item type: Unpublished, Official
Category: Administrative document, Service record
Item content
Creation date (d/m/y): ?/07/1941
Conflict code: Pacific War (1941-1945)
Keywords:IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS, SERVICE RECORD, TRAINING
Australian unit names:
Allied unit names:
Japanese unit names:41st Division 238th Infantry Regt Infantry Gun Det
41st Division 238th Infantry Regt 1st Machine Gun Coy
Temporary Army Hospital
Names: HASEGAWA, Lt Col; KAWASAKI, Lt; SUGIOKA, Capt
Languages: Japanese
Area:Ujina (Hiroshima Bay) [Japan–Formosa, Honshû, Hiroshima Prefecture]
Finschhafen [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen Area]
Content: This item is a collection of rolls and service records from 1941 for soldiers belonging to the 41st Division 238th Infantry Regiment. Each sheet records the details of a soldier's military service career, from his induction to his current situation, including any promotions, transfers, details of training and principal duties, and comments on the soldier's performance. Some of the sheets are signed by medical staff, indicating hospitalisation for illness or injury, and one of them mentions the transfer of the soldier in question (Pte KUMEHARA) to the 41st Division as a trainee. This item belongs to a folder of other materials containing similar information about other soldiers from the 238th Regiment. It was captured at Finschhafen in April 1944.
AWM 82 captured Japanese document details
Title: Service records and notification certificates
ATIS number: 1/2/500042
Item status: Original document
Item type: Unpublished, Official
Names: HASEGAWA, Lt Col; KAWASAKI, Lt; SUGIOKA, Capt
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Japanese unit names: 41st Division 238th Infantry Regt Infantry Gun Det
41st Division 238th Infantry Regt 1st Machine Gun Coy
Temporary Army Hospital
Japanese unit names (romaji):Dai 41 Shidan Hohei Dai 238 Rentai Hohei Hôchûtai
Dai 14 Shidan Hohei Dai 238 Rentai Dai 1 Kikanjû Chûtai
Rinji Rikugun Byôin
Japanese unit names (kanji)
Place of acquisition: Finschhafen
Date of acquisition: 04/16/1944
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Last modified:03/05/2009 10:06:34 AM
Source:AJRP staff



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