Following the war Herket worked on and off as an accountant on several NSW pastoral properties before applying for work in 1939 with the Department of Treasury as an agriculture agent for the Australian Government in New Guinea. Tom Herket is listed as one of the 209 civilians who were killed on the Montevideo Maru when this Japanese ship was sunk by an American submarine on 1 July 1942. (Sources : Australian War Memorial records).
Many of the civilians who died on the Montevideo Maru in 1942 served during WWI. There is a portrait of Tom Herket in the First World War Gallery: Western Front 1916. The drawing, charcoal and pastel over pencil on paper, was done by Hilda Rix Nicholas, probably around 1920 when Nicholas was living in Mosman, Sydney.
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