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Item title: Postal savings book for KOSAKA Ken'ichirô
Title (romaji): Kosaka Ken'ichirô no yûbin chokin tsûchô
Title (kanji)
Location:Australian War Memorial (AWM 82 1/2/500256)
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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:
Location details
Institution: Australian War Memorial
Call number: AWM 82 1/2/500256
Inst. series: AWM 82
Inst. sub-series: 1/2/- Items registered by ATIS as "B" documents
Item: 1/2/500256
Item qualities
Quantity / desc: 8 pages, photocopy
Access: Open
Item type: Unpublished, Official
Category: Savings book
Item content
Creation date range (d/m/y): 12/3/1940 to 22/12/1942
Conflict code: Pacific War (1941-1945)
Keywords:IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY, ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS, SALARIES
Australian unit names:
Allied unit names:
Japanese unit names:Kumano
Names: KOSAKA Ken'ichirô
Languages: Japanese
Area:Jivevaneng [Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands), New Guinea, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen Area]
Content: This item is a postal savings book issued to KOSAKA Ken'ichirô. The front cover contains columns for account number, the agency responsible for the original register, remarks, address and name. The back cover shows a list of instructions. The savings book was issued by the Hiroshima branch of the Postal Savings Department. The information written in the address space indicates KOSAKA Ken'ichirô belonged to the 2nd Squad of the cruiser Kumano and then he was posted in Moji Naval Officers' Office. The rest of the savings book consists of columns for transaction records. The transactions occurred between 12 March 1940 and 22 December 1942. This item was captured at Jivevaneng on 8 October 1943.
AWM 82 captured Japanese document details
Title: Postal savings book for KOSAKA Ken'ichirô
ATIS number: 500256
Item status: Photocopy - original document repatriated
Item type: Unpublished, Official
Names: KOSAKA Ken'ichirô
Names (kanji ):
Sender:
Sender (kanji):
Recipient:
Recipient (kanji):
Japanese unit names: Kumano
Japanese unit names (romaji):Kumano
Japanese unit names (kanji)
Place of acquisition: Lae
Date of acquisition: 10/08/1943
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Last modified:03/05/2009 10:09:23 AM
Source:AJRP staff



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