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1331278
Aircraftsman 1st Class
Stanley George Leggett
1921/08/15 - Born
Son of Charles and Florence
Occupation Railway Fireman
Address of Florence - Colomb Road, Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk
1940/12/31 - Enlisted, Uxbridge or Weston-super-mere
Royal Air Force
211 Squadron
Japanese PoW
1942/03/08 - Captured Java
Boei Glodock Camp, Batavia, Java
PoW No. 4451
Commander Captain Noble, Royal Air Force
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/10/16 - Departed Java in Java Party 5a to Singapore in the Singapore Maru
1942/10/19 - Arrived Singapore taken to Changi
1942/10/29 - Transported to Japan in Dainichi Maru
1942/12/01 - Hakodate, Japan
Commander Major Andrews, Royal Artillery
Fourteen men among the forty-seven men who were shipped from JAVA and were confined for recuperation at the YOSHIDA Detachment of the 1st Shipping Transportation Command (AKATSUKI 6160) when they arrived at MOJI late in November 1942 were placed in the 3rd Sub-Camp and treated in the Kokura Army Hospital.
1943/11/17 - Fukuaka 3B, Yahata, Japan
Island of Kyushu
PoW No. III 3685
Commander Major Dorris, American
Worked at Yahata Steel Mills
Officers were paid 50 yen per month and were permitted to spend about 10 yen of it in commissary purchases. Enlisted men were paid when they worked. Generally they were given from 10 to 50 sen a day.
1945/09/17 - Liberated Fukuoka 3B
Repatriated
1945/09/27 - Manila, Philippines - Boarding No. 607, USS General R. L. Howze
(Named after Robert Lee Howze)
1945/10/15 - Arrived San Francisco
Evacuated to the UK via America
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Post War
Trial of Fukuoka 3B Commandant Major Yaichi Rikitake at Yokohama, Japan, from 7 March 1946 to 22 March 1946.
Charge: Violation of the Laws and Customs of War between 1 March 1944 and 15 August 1945 as Commanding Officer of PW Camp No. 3, Kokuro, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, by commiting cruel and brutal atrocities against PW’s, and failing to control, and permitting members of his command to commit cruel and brutal atrocities and other offenses agains PWs.
He was found guilty and sentenced the accused to be confined at hard labour for fifteen (15) years.
Information
Alan Leggett
Glenda Godfrey
Tan DingXiang
Japanese Transports
Java Index
Roger Mansel - Fukuoka 3B - Yahata
Liberation Questionnaire - COFEPOW
Travelling Home
KEW Files:- WO 345/31, WO 361/1254, WO 361/2211, WO 392/25, WO 361/2009,
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