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P/J/8390

Able Seaman

Harry Varney

 Royal Navy

H.M.S. Tamar

Japanese POW

Captured Hong Kong

Transported to Japan on the Lisbon Maru.

The hell ship was sunk by USS Grouper (American submarine) on the 1st October 1942. Harry survived the sinking, 820 perished.

Died

Age: 48

1st October 1943

Of chronic enteritis

At Camp 01 B (Minato-ku, Osaka) Japan

Ichioka Hospital

Loved Ones

Son of Joseph and Sarah Varney, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Husband of Ethel Varney, of Southcourt, Aylesbury

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Brit. Sec. M. C. 5.

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