The Soldier's Details
- Surname:
- Oag
- First Name:
- Alexander Sutherland
- Rank:
- Private
- Regimental #:
- WX8481
- Company:
- ‘A’ Company, No. 4 Platoon
- Enlisted:
- 18.10.1940
- Discharged:
- 22.04.1947
- DOB:
- 19.03.1903
- Place of Birth:
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Father's Name:
- Alexander Oag
- Mothers's Name:
- Agnes Joan Glascow Haywood Oag
- Religion:
- Church of England
- Pre-war Occupation:
- Bread Carter
- Singapore:
- Selarang Camp Changi; Johore Bahru; Adam Park; Selarang Barracks Changi
- Force:
- ‘D’ Force Thailand, S Battalion
- Camps Thailand:
- Tarsau, Tonchan South, Tonchan Central, Kanu lll , Tonchan Central, Kinsaiyok; Hintock River Camp; Tamuang
- Camps Japan:
- Ohama Camp No. 9B
- POW#:
- 4 /6470 and 8828 and 395
- Japan:
- Rashin Maru Party
- Return Details 1945:
- Wakayama-Okinawa, USS Consolation; Okinawa-Manila, USS Haskell; Manila-Sydney, HMS Speaker; Sydney-Fremantle, HMT Dominion Monarch
General Description
Oag was with ‘A’ Coy No. 4 Platoon
Below: Lou Daily mentions Oag in his postcard sent from Moulmein, Burma.
Australian POWs at Ohama POW Camp, Japan 9 -B from where Alex was recovered from at the end of the war.
Back Row: L-R (1) Bert Poulten WX9764 (5) Doug Carter WX8240
2nd Last Row: L-R (2) Alf Worth WX7440 (3) Alex Oag WX8481
3rd Row from Back: L-R (4) Aub Schuts WX8562 (8) Bob Whitelaw WX9076
Front Row: L-R (9) Arthur Walker WX16370
Back Row: Aub Schuts, Bob Whitelaw, Bert Poulton,
Front Row: Alec Oag, Alf Worth, Arthur Walker
Read the journey of the Rashin (Byoke) Maru
Oag’s Affidavit for War Crimes – Ohama, Japan
A notice for Alex’s mate Reg Tuffin who was KIA Singapore 8 Feb 1942.
Below: For Vera’s brother Ted Phillips who died of illness Palestine, 1941.
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The Oag family arrived in WA from Scotland about 1913.
In 1915 Alex’s father Alex (Snr) drowned aged 40 years whilst attempting to save his son Alex 11 years and another younger boy at the Canning River Bridge area. The boys had taken a small boat out and when it began to fill with water, they called for Alex (Snr) to help them.
An inquest found Alex (Snr) who was a good swimmer, it appears may have died from a heart condition.
What had started out as a happy family day at the river became an awful tragedy for Mrs Oag and her five children, especially for 11 year old Alex who with a younger boy had taken out a small dinghy onto the river. When found it was leaking in water and sinking fast Alex (Snr) swam out to the boys. They were eventually saved by two other young teenagers as Alex (Snr) disappeared beneath the water.
Alex’s mother Agnes remarried about 1917 (to Fearns) after Alexander (Snr) drowned in 1915.
In 1924 13 year old son George died.
Agnes died in 1946.
Another son George, died in 1924 aged 13 years.
Alec married about 1932 in Perth to Bessie ‘Vera’ Phillips.
Above: Alex was working as a Bread Carter in 1940 prior to enlisting.
Below: Vera’s mother died in 1949.
Alex Oag died 24 Mar 1965 aged 62 years and his wife Vera died in 1974 aged 63 years.
Camp Locations:
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- Johore Bahru, - Malaysia
- Selarang Barracks Changi - Singapore
- Selarang Camp Changi - Singapore
- Hintok River Camp, 158k - Thailand
- Kanu II, 152.30k - Thailand
- Kinsaiyok Main, 170.2k - Thailand
- Tamuang, Tha Muang 39k - Thailand
- Tarsau, Tha Sao 125k - Thailand
- Tonchan South, 131k - Thailand
- Tonchan, 139k - Thailand
- Ohama, Hiroshima #9-B - Japan ***