Robert Page (soldier)

Robert Page
Page in 1943
Born	(1920-07-21)21 July 1920 Summer Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Died	7 July 1945(1945-07-07) (aged 24) Singapore
Buried	Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore
Allegiance	Australia
Service / branch	Second Australian Imperial Force
Years of service	1940–1945
Rank	Captain
Unit	Z Special Unit
Battles / wars	Second World War Operation Jaywick Operation Rimau
Awards	Distinguished Service Order
Relations	Harold Page (father) Sir Earle Page (uncle)

Robert Charles Page, DSO (21 July 1920 – 7 July 1945) was an Australian soldier who was a member of Z Special Unit during the Second World War. He took part in Operation Jaywick and Operation Rimau, in which he was captured and executed by the Japanese. He was the nephew of Australian prime minister Sir Earle Page, and the son of Harold Page, who died as a Japanese prisoner of war in 1942. Page was played by John Howard in the film The Highest Honor (1983) and Chris Morsley in The Heroes (1989) and Heroes II: The Return (1991).^[1]