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Hell Ship Rolls -2

Tamahoko Maru

Tamahoko Maru

Roll

 

1636562

 

Gunner

Borrill, Percy Atherton

 

 

Royal Artillery

240/77 H.A.A. Regiment

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese POW

Nationality:-

United Kingdom

 

Place of Capture:-

Java

1944/05/19:-

Kiska Maru to Singapore in Java Party 20

1944/05/21:-

Arrived Singapore

1944/06/03:-

Departed in Miyo Maru - Japan Party 1

1944/06/11:-

Arrived Manilla, Philippines

1944/06/14:-

Departed for Taiwan

 

Miyo Maru badly damaged in Typhoon but reached Taiwan.

1944/06/18:-

At Takao, Taiwan PoWs transferred to Tamahoko Maru. As it was a cargo ship the holds held copper ore.

1944/06/24:-

Attacked by USS Tang. Two torpedoes hit the Tamahoko Maru and there was a large explosion, within two minutes the ship sunk to the bottom.

Notes:-

With Java Party 20 which left Singapore in Miyo Maru for Japan.

 

 

Died

Age:-

35

 

Date:-

1944/06/20

 

Cause of Death:-

 

 

Place of Death:-

 

 

 

 

 

Loved Ones

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Atherton Borrill; husband of Doris Borrill, of Stoke-on-Trent

 

Memorial

Brit. Sec. R.D.6.

 

Yokahama War Cemetery

 

Japan

 

 

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