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619554
Corporal
John Maguire
1919/11/11 - Born Workington
Son of James and Johanna Maguire
Royal Air Force
258 Squadron
Command West group
John on right
Japanese PoW
1942/04/06 - Captured
PoW No. I 554
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/09/26 - Transported Java Party No 17A from Batavia, Java to Singapore in Makassar Maru
1943/10/01 - Arrived Changi
1943/10/21 - Transported in Matsue Maru to Moji, Japan
(Total 1155 PoWs - 736 Dutch PoWs and 419 British PoWs)
1943/10/26 - Arrived Saigon, French Indo-China
1943/10/26 - Departed Saigon same day
1943/11/06 - Arrived Takao, Taiwan
50 Dutch and British officers disembarked, 50 British ranks embarked
1943/11/08 - departed Takao, Taiwan
1943/11/15 - Arrived Moji, Japan
Voyage from Singapore took 26 days
Then by train through the tunnel of Shimonoseki via Kobe, Nagoya to Yokohama; the train rode only by night, the windows were blinded. In Tokyo the PoWs were split up to travel to different camps
Osaka 14B, Wakayama, Japan
New PoW No. 6580
Worked for Mitsubishi Copper Mines
1945/03/29 - Closed and PoWs transferred to Osaka 19B, Ikuna, Japan
New PoW No. 5748
Worked for Mitsubishi Copper Mines
1945/08 Renamed Osaka 4B
1945/08/30 - Liberated Osaka 4B, Japan
Age at Liberation 26
Post War
Information
Wendy Conway
Java Index
Japanese Transports
Japanese Homeland Camps
KEW:- WO 361/1971, WO 392/25, WO 361/2009, WO 361/1964, WO 361/1963,
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