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1170128
Aircraftman 1st Class
Jack Leonard
1913/09/01 - Born, Soham, Cambridgeshire
Son of Arthur Robert and Georgina Leonard
1940/07/03 - Enlisted at Cardington
Royal Air Force
Station Armoury Seletar, Singapore
Japanese PoW
1942/03/08 - Captured Tasikmalaya, Java
Camps in Java:-
1942/04/18 - Malang
Hospitalized at the camp for a while due to bacillary dysentery
1942/-9/ - Soerabaya
1943/06/ - Tjimaki
Commander W/C Wyndham Poowis Welsh, RAF
PoW No. I 26749
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/09/26 - Transported with Java Party 17A to Singapore in Makassar Maru
1943/10/01 - Arrived Changi, Singapore
1943/10/21 - Transported to Japan in Matsue Maru
With 419 British, 736 Dutch
1943/11/15 - Osaka - Wakayama
PoW No. 1868
Worked for Sumitomo Metallic Industrial Co. Ltd
1945/03/29 - Camp Closed
PoWs evacuation from Wakayama Beach (Photo from the late Roger Mansell)
1945/03/29 - Transferred to Osaka 19B - Ikuna
Worked Mitsubishi Copper Mining Company
New PoW No. 5644
1945/08/ - Renamed Osaka 4B - Ikuna
1945/09/06 - Liberated on roll at Osaka 4B, No. 217
Handed over to Pitt at Ikuno Station
Liberation Questionnaire
Repatriation
1945/09/25 - Travelled home from Maila in HMS Implacable.
Jack’s Embarkation No. 587
British included 2,000 men and 135 Officers
1945/10/05 - Americans departed ship at US Naval Base Pearl Harbour, Ford Island.
1945/10/11 - Arrive Vancouver’s ‘A’ Pier
Many from the Implacable then travelled by train to Halifax, Nova Scotia to board the Ile de France to Southampton, arriving 1945/10/31.
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Defence Medal
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Died
1982/11/29 - Wembley Middlesex
Information
Denise Leonard - Daughter
Glenda Godfrey
Tim Lloyd
Japanese Transports
Roll of Honour - Osaka 4B
Roger Mansell - Osaka - Wakayama
Roger Mansell - Osaka 4B - Ikuna
Liberation Questionnaire - COFEPOW
Kew Files:- WO 361/1971, WO 392/25, WO 345/31, WO 361/2009, WO 361/1964, WO 361/1963, WO 361/2218,
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