{"id":2680,"date":"2025-06-06T05:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/?page_id=2680"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:37:26","slug":"torres-strait-light-infantry-battalion-soldier-buried-in-grave-with-wrong-name","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/?page_id=2680","title":{"rendered":"Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion Soldier Buried in Grave With Wrong Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2676\" src=\"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-06-at-3.16.40-pm-1024x744.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-06-at-3.16.40-pm-1024x744.png 1024w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-06-at-3.16.40-pm-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-06-at-3.16.40-pm-768x558.png 768w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-06-at-3.16.40-pm-1536x1116.png 1536w, https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-06-at-3.16.40-pm.png 1900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion soldier Charlie Bob Ngakyunkwokka died from influenza in April 1945. It has now been revealed that Charlie Bob was buried in a Commonwealth War Grave bearing a wrong surname and age at death. Below: Thursday Island, 1945. A squad of The Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion Training In their company lines.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Read more here: <span class=\"html-span xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\"><a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n x18oe1m7 x1sy0etr xstzfhl x972fbf x10w94by x1qhh985 x14e42zd x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xkrqix3 x1sur9pj x1fey0fg x1s688f\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-06-03\/aboriginal-soldier-charlie-bob-ngakyunkwokka-name\/105342320?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExTVFtUmx2ZmFzWm5ERlhHSgEekXcFfxUsNaz5gNWAffc0F7qm94b2flO8yqQjeH6WjJHfmtUBlT9sNKLu6d8_aem_Y2YKvXKrma8Gw4cF8ql9Mw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/&#8230;\/aboriginal-soldier&#8230;\/105342320<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion soldier Charlie Bob Ngakyunkwokka died from influenza in April 1945. It has now been revealed that Charlie Bob was buried in a Commonwealth War Grave bearing a wrong surname and age at death. Below: Thursday Island, 1945. A squad of The Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion Training In their company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2680","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2680\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpinsw.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}