Roger
Arthur Alfred
Berman
Born in Scone, New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors 
Son of Arthur Edwin Berman
and Mabel Grace (Gray) Berman
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 24
in At Sea
Profile last modified
| Created 8 Jun 2019
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Biography
Roger Berman was a Prisoner of War during World War II.
Roger Berman died as a prisoner of war on the Montevideo Maru during the Second World War.
Roger was born in 1917 in Scone, NSW, the som of Arthur Edwin Berman and Mabel Grace Gray.
Roger was the plantation manager at the Lolobeau plantation, near Rabaul, New Britain in the Territory of New Guinea. He had worked there from April 1940. When the Japanese invaded in January 1942 he was captured at Kokopo, near Rabaul and interned as a civilian prisoner.
It would seem he was operated on for appendicitis in Rabaul around the time of the invasion.[1]
He died on board the "Montevideo Maru" when it was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of the Philippines on 01 July 1942, en route from Rabaul to Hainan, where he was destined for forced labour.
Sources
- Birth - NSW BDM Birth index - BERMAN ROGER A; 8472/1918; ARTHUR E; MABEL G; SCONE
- Death Form - National Archives of Australia - Defence - General - Information of deaths for persons lost on the MONTEVIDEO MARU - https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=102239&S=19
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission - https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/3173225/roger-arthur-alfred-berman/
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