Heisuke Abe

Imperial Japanese officer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroImperial Japanese officer
PlacesJapan
wasMilitary personnel
Work fieldMilitary
Gender
Male
Birth18 December 1886, Miyagi Prefecture
Death11 June 1943Wewak (aged 56 years)
The details

Biography

Lieutenant General Heisuke Abe (阿部 平輔, Abe Heisuke, 1886–1943) was a senior officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was the Commandant of Cadets at the Komamoto Army Training School between 1934 and 1936, before being posted as the Commanding Officer Noncommissioned Officer Candidates Kwantung Army. He was the Commanding Officer of the 20th Depot Division when war broke out and was the Commanding Officer of the 41st Division in New Guinea in 1942. He died of illness, presumed to be Dracunculiasis at Wewak in September 1943.

Military career

FromToAppointment
DD.MM.190727.05.1909Military Academy
18.03.193305.03.19344th Depot Guards Infantry Regiment
05.03.193401.12.1936Commandant of Cadets, Komamoto Army Training School
01.12.193619.02.1938Commanding Officer Noncommissioned Officer Candidates Kwantung Army
19.02.193825.03.1938Attached to Kwantung Army Headquarters
25.03.193805.12.19382nd Sector 8th Border Garrison Unit Commander
25.12.193801.08.19398th Border Defence Unit Commander
01.08.194013.07.1941Commandant of Morioka Army Reserve Officers' Cadet School
28.07.194101.07.194220th Depot Division Commander
01.07.194211.06.194341st Division Commander, New Guinea
11.06.1943-Dead of disease

Ranks Promotions

Date of AwardMilitary Rank
25.12.19092nd Lieutenant
02.03.1926Major
01.08.1931Lieutenant Colonel
01.08.1935Colonel
10.12.1938Major General
25.08.1941Lieutenant General

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