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Gunner
Joseph Brice
1916/06/02 - Born Liverpool
Son of John Taylor and Beatrice
Occupation Labourer
1936/06/02 - Enlisted
Royal Artillery
3 H.A.A
Southern Area
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
River Valley, Singapore
PoW No. 2664
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/04/04 - Oversea in Nissyo Maru to Saigon, French Indo-China with 1118 PoWs (All Ranks) called ‘Saigon Battalion’
Commander Lt-Col. Frances Edgar Hugonin’s Party (Awarded OBE 1946/09/12)
Transported to overland to Thailand
New PoW No. 2664
1942/04/09 - Arrived Saigon with half the PoWs down with dysentery because of the bad conditions on board the Nissyo Maru
Worked on docks unloading cargo
1943/06/22 - Transported to Thailand with 700 PoWs under Lt-Col. Hugonin
Tha Sau, Thailand (Commander Lt-Col. Harvey)
Tonchan, Thailand (Commander Lt-Col. McKellar)
1944/09 - Transported to Singapore
New PoW No. VII 3372
1944/09/09 - River Valley, Singapore (Commander Lt-Col Gill)
1945/02/02 - Oversea to Saigon in Haruyasa Maru, French Indo-China with 2539 PoWs (1153 British). 2030 PoWs were from Thailand.
1945/02/09 - Arrived Saigon (Camp Ldt R.S.M. Bradstreet)
PoW No. VII 40262
1945/09/12 - Liberated Saigon - On roll of Camp 10
Flew via Bangkok to Rangoon
Information
Louise Rogers
KEW:- WO 361/2022, WO 392/23, WO 345/6, WO 361/2005, WO 361/2001, WO 361/1987, WO 361/2169, WO 361/2058, WO 361/2184,
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