Question: What is the population of the town in New South Wales where Japanese prisoners of war stages an escape attempt on 5th August 1944 ?

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Hajime Toyoshima: Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima (豊嶋一 , Toyoshima Hajime ) (died August 5, 1944) was a Japanese airman in World War II.  His A6M Zero was the first of that type (after those recovered after the Attack on Pearl Harbor) to be recovered relatively intact on Allied territory when he crash landed on Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia.  Toyoshima was the first Japanese Prisoner of War to be captured in Australia.  While a Prisoner of War, Toyoshima was one of the instigators of the Breakout from the Prisoner of War Camp located in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia, sounding a bugle to signal the commencement of the escape and died during the escape attempt.

Ben Hardy (GC): Benjamin Gower Hardy, GC (28 August 1898 – 5 August 1944), known as Ben Hardy, was an Australian soldier who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the gallantry he showed when Japanese prisoners of war staged an escape attempt on 5 August 1944 in Cowra, New South Wales.

Ralph Jones (GC): Ralph Jones, GC (26 September 1900 – 5 August 1944) was an English-born Australian soldier who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the gallantry he showed when Japanese prisoners of war staged an escape attempt on 5 August 1944 in Cowra, New South Wales.

Jillian Skinner: Jillian Gell Skinner (born 5 August 1944 in Melbourne), an Australian politician, was the New South Wales Minister for Health in the Baird government.  Skinner was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing North Shore for the Liberal Party from 1994 to 2017 and was the Deputy Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party from 2007 to 2014.  Between 2011 and 2015 Skinner also served as the Minister for Medical Research.  On 27 January 2017, Skinner announced her intention to resign from the ministry and from Parliament.

Trelew massacre: The Trelew Massacre was a mass execution of 16 political prisoners, militants of different Peronist and left organizations, in Rawson Penitentiary by the conservative military government of Argentina.  The prisoners were recaptured after an escape attempt and subsequently shot down by marines led by Lieutenant Commander Luis Emilio Sosa in a simulated new attempt to escape.  The marines forced the prisoners to fake a new escape, then executed them as revenge by the dictatorship for the successful escape of some of their comrades during the initial prison break.  The massacre took place on the morning of 22 August 1972 in the Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport, an airbase of the Argentine Navy near the city of Trelew, Chubut in Patagonia.

Cowra: Cowra is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia.  It is the largest population centre and the council seat for the Cowra Shire, with a population of 10,063.

Cowra breakout: The Cowra breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when at least 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war attempted to escape from a prisoner of war camp near Cowra, in New South Wales, Australia.  It was the largest prison escape of World War II, as well as one of the bloodiest.  During the escape and ensuing manhunt, four Australian soldiers and 231 Japanese soldiers were killed.  The remaining escapees were captured and imprisoned.

Island Farm: Island Farm was a Prisoner of War Camp (Camp 198) on the outskirts of the town of Bridgend, South Wales.  It hosted a number of Axis prisoners, mainly German, and was the scene of the largest escape attempt by German POWs in Britain during World War II.  Near the end of the war it became known as Special Camp XI.  The list of former inmates includes many senior SS military leaders, who were awaiting extradition to the Nuremberg trials.

17th Battalion (Australia): The 17th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army.  Although its numerical designation was bestowed upon it during World War I, the 17th Battalion can trace its lineage back to 1860, when a unit of the New South Wales Volunteer Rifles was raised in St Leonards, New South Wales.  This unit has since been disbanded and reformed a number times.  Through its links with the units of the colonial New South Wales defence force, the battalion's history includes service in the Sudan and South Africa.  During World War I, the 17th Battalion was raised for overseas service as part of the Australian Imperial Force.  Attached to the 5th Brigade, 2nd Division, the battalion was raised in 1915 and sent to Egypt initially, before taking part in the fighting at Gallipoli against the Turks.  Later the battalion was sent to the Western Front in France and Belgium, where it served in the trenches as part of the Australian Corps.  Throughout the course of the war, the battalion won numerous battle honours and its members received many individual awards, however, at the end of the war the battalion was disbanded in April 1919.

Mungindi: Mungindi is a town and locality on the border of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, Australia.  The town is within Moree Plains Shire in New South Wales and within the Shire of Balonne in Queensland.  Within Queensland, the locality is split between the Shire of Balonne (the western part) and the Goondiwindi Region (eastern part).  It possesses a New South Wales postcode.  Mungindi sits on the Carnarvon Highway and straddles the Barwon River which is the border between New South Wales and Queensland.  At the 2011 census , Mungindi had a population of 738 on the New South Wales side.  The population on the Queensland side is now included in Thallon, which had a population, including the surrounding area, of 382.

Supporting paragraphs: Ben Hardy (GC) Cowra
Answer: 10,063