Captain Claude Robert Henry Thorn : QX1210 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion killed in action aged 29 years on the 19th November 1942 in Papua New Guinea.
His death was registered in Queensland, in 1943
Commemorated on the Port Moresby Memorial
Port Moresby War Cemetery also known as Tanubada, Bomana War Cemetery
Sogeri Road, Tanubada, National Capital District, National Capital Province, Papua New Guinea.
place of burial does not apear in the Commonwealth Graves records (was his body recovered for burial?)
from Fedor de Vries - "The graves are brought together from the surrounding area. A part of the graves are from casualties of the the campaigns in Papua and Bougainville, other casualties died in from prisoner-of-war camps or as forced laborers. Click here for photographs of the cemetery by Arthur Chapman [1]