Second World War Japanese Serial Number Brass Plate as souvenired by Sapper Kingsley Charles MOHR, WX26433
1939 - 1945A rectangular brass plate with the observe showing Japanese characters interspersed with numbers within a border while the reverse is unmarked. Each corner shows where screws would have attached the item to the weapon or device.
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On front “7569 / 17 / 9” with Japanese characters.
The brass plate was souvenired by Kingsley Charles MOHR (WX26433), who enlisted at Guildford on 9 August 1941. A Sapper in the Australian Mechanical Equipment Company he spent 1495 days on Active Service in Australia and 625 days on Overseas Service from September 1943 – August 1944 and 10 March – 6 December 1945 before being discharged at Karrakatta in Western Australia on 24 January 1946. MOHR had lived in Denmark, Western Australia, before enlisting and returned there after the war.
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