To honour those who served their country

“In this their finest hour”

Fukuoka 6D - Tanoura

(Kumamoto)

PoWs worked in carbon plant. They had left Singapore 1943/09/22 in the Seishin Maru along with 1500 other PoWs.

1942 13th October camp started

1943 12th October Australians arrive from Batavia, Java via Singapore. 1500 PoWs left in the Seishin Maru, via Manila and Taiwan

1943 12th October arrive Moji and transported to Tanoura

1945 30th June the camp was closed and the remaining 100 PoWs transported to Fukuoka 25B

I would like to thank Richard Brooker, grandson of Wilson D. Thomas for giving me permission to use his photos which were taken at the Fukuoka 6D Camp, before the PoWs were moved to Fukuoka 25B. (* Photo)

Thanks to:-

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Centre for Research
• Wes Injerd
• D. Rider
• Jim Erickson
• Mark Hagen
• Meg Parkes
• FEPOW Community
• COFEPOW Database
• PoW Research Network Japan
• Plus my understanding wife

Fukuoka 6D - Tanoura Rolls

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Survived (No liberation roll as PoWs transferred to Fukuoka 25B)

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