Frederick Clyde Nunan (1912 - 1942)

Born 29 Apr 1912 in Bergalia, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Died 1 Jul 1942 at age 30 in At Sea

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Biography

Frederick Nunan was a Prisoner of War during World War II.

Frederick Nunan died as a prisoner of war on the Montevideo Maru during the Second World War.

Frederick was born at Bergalia, near Moroya, NSW in 1912, the son of Frederick Nunan and his wife Eileen, nee Kennedy.

Frederick moved to the Territory of New Guinea around 1938. In 1941 he was manager of Mandres sawmill near Rabaul, operated by Carpenter & Co, when a worker died and he was charged with assaulting the native.^[1] He was captured by the Japanese at Buka in Bougainville on 13 Mar 1942 and interned in Rabaul as a civilian prisoner. He died on board the "Montevideo Maru" when it was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of the Philippines on 01 Jul 1942.

He was not married.

Sources

1. ↑ Another "Enlarged Spleen" Case in N. Guinea. (1941-01-14). In Pacific islands monthly : PIM. xi (,6), 48. - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/234086796

• Birth - NSW BDM Birth index - NUNAN FREDERICK C; 18872/1912; FREDERICK F; EILEEN V; MORUYA

• 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=127

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/3173320/frederick-clyde-nunan/

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116568832/frederick-clyde-nunan

• https://www.ancestry.com.au/genealogy/records/frederick-clyde-nunan-24-4b9smj