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Corporal
George (Dod) Allan
1926 - Enlisted in the Royal Scots
1936 - Male Nurse in Edinburgh
1939 - Royal Army Medical Corps
Japanese PoW
1941/12/25 - Captured Hong Kong
Held Shamshuipo until 27 September 1942
1942/01/13 - War Office Casualty Section, Casualty List No. 719. Missing
1942/09/27 - Transported on the Lisbon Maru for Japan
1942/10/01 - Lisbon Maru Torpedoed and sunk by USS Grouper, 6 miles from Tung Fusham Island off China coast. 29°57'N, 122°56'N
Survivors regrouped at Shanghai but George was one of around 40 deemed too sick to continue the journey to Japan. Transported in June 1945 via Korea to Japan and the Hakodate Camp
1945/09/15 - Liberated Hakodate #2 (Akahira)
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