Corporal Herbert Mason of the 2/28th Battalion, with his wife Mollie and two children, Beryl and Ken. Corporal Mason was taken prisoner in July 1942. He was among the estimated 2000 prisoners being transported from Benghazi to Italy aboard the Italian freighter Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine on 17 August 1942. One torpedo hit the engine room, the other the No. 1 hold. Mason was among the estimated 500 Australian, New Zealand and English troops crowded into the No. 1 hold, only seventy of whom survived. Mason did not, and his body was never recovered. (AWM P03169.004)
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AWM P03169.004
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