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Staff Sergeant
Leslie Jones
1909/04/12 - Born Valletta, Malta
Son of Mary Ellen Jones
Royal Engineers
40th Fortress Company
1942/02/02 - WO 417/37, Casualty List No.736. Missing
Japanese PoW
1941/12/25 - Captured Hong Kong
Shamshuipo Camp
PoW No. 1344
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/09/27 - Sailed from Hong Kong in the Lisbon Maru
On the third day at sea Diptheria broke out.
1942/10/01 - A noise like air rushing out of a tyre woke the sleeping PoWs and they realised a torpedo had just missed the ship. A few minutes later there was a loud explosion and the ships engines stopped.
The submarine, USS Grouper SS-214 had attacked and hit the Lisbon Maru.
At 7.30pm the Japanese destroyer ‘Kure’ and the Toyokuni Maru took of all the Japanese except a machine gun crew who had their gun trained on the Battened down hold.
1942/10/02 - Lisbon Maru sunk
Chinese fishing boats picked up survivors and landed them at Woosung, Nr. Shanghai. They were later transported to Japan.
Osaka 1B - Minato-Ku
New PoW No. 5496
1945/09/08 - Liberated Japan
1945/09/12 - Assisted 8th Army Recovery HQ
New Osaka Hotel
Osaka, Japan
1945/10/26 - WO417/98, Casualty List No. 1894. Previously reported on Casualty List No. 915 as Prisoner of War now Not Prisoner of War. Previous Theatre of War, Hong Kong.
Post War
1948 - WO102_28, Long Service And Good Conduct Medal
Information
Japanese Transports
Tony Banham’s books:-
‘Not the Slightest Chance’
‘The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru’
‘We Shall Suffer There’
KEW Files:- WO 361/1558, WO 345/28, WO 392/24, WO 361/1558, WO 361/1964, WO 361/1963, WO 361/1744,
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