OAG, Alexander Sutherland - WX8481

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Pte Alexander Sutherland Oag
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Conflict World War 2
Service Arm Australian Imperial Force
Unit 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, A Company
Service No. WX8481
Service Arm Army
Date of Birth 19 Mar 1903
Birthplace Edinburgh, SCOT
Residence Perth, WA
Date of Death 24 Mar 1965
Relatives Father - Alexander Oag
Mother - Agnes Joan Haywood Oag
Wife - Bessie Vera Phillips



Alexander was a POW in Changi and was sent to work on the Burma Railway. He was then shipped to Japan where he was put to work in the coal mines in Fukuoka until the war ended.



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