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Hell Ship Rolls -2

Tamahoko Maru

Tamahoko Maru

Roll

 

1730348

 

Gunner

Weir, Walter

 

 

Royal Artillery

240 Bty., 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:-

Alias: Tomohoku Maru, Yone Maru. Tamahoko Maru was torpedoed 1944/06/24 by USS Tang. Carrying 772 prisoners, 560 died.

 

 

Died

Age:-

37

 

Date:-

1944/06/24

 

Cause of Death:-

POW lost in the Tamahoko Maru

 

Place of Death:-

Approximate position 40 miles S.W. of Nagasaki

 

 

 

 

Loved Ones

Son of Joseph and Jane Ann Weir; husband of Margaret Weir, of Penrith, Cumberland.

 

Memorial

Column 33.

 

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