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S/54773
Sergeant
James Walter Weir
1915/12/20 - Born Glasgow, Scotland
Son of Walter and Janet Weir
Royal Army Service Corps
12 Company
Service
1935/04/10 - Enlisted
Stationed in Hong Kong
1941/12/08 - Japan entered the war by bombing Pearl Harbour and attacking Malaya and Hong Kong.
1941/12/25 - Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese
1942/01/13 - WO 417/36, Casualty List No. 719. Reported ‘Missing’.
Japanese PoW
1941/12/25 - Captured Hong Kong
1941/12/30 - North Point
Commander Brigadier Wallis
1942/01/26 - Shamshuipo
Commander Major C Boon
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/12/15 - Transported oversea in the Soong Cheong with 5th Draft to Japan with 563 PoWs.
1944/01/07 - 400 British and Canadians arrive from Hong Kong in the SS Soong Cheong. The camp was established as Osaka 11B - Narumi.
PoWs worked for Daido Electric Steel Company making wheels, at the Nippon Wheel Manufacturing Company.
1944/04/06 - Jurisdiction control transferred to Nagoya POW Command with 581 POWs. Renamed Nagoya PoW Camp 2B - Narumi (James on roll)
1944/08/04 - 200 Americans arrived from the Philippines
2 Sept 1945/09/02 - Food drops by B-29s of the 315th Bomb Wing
1945/09/04 - Liberated Nagoya, Japan
Liberation Questionnaire filled in by James after being liberated
Repatriation
Empress of Australia
The ‘Empress of Australia’ departed Hong Kong 1945/09/12 to Manila where PoWs embarked, then onto Singapore where Internees embarked. Sailing via Colombo, Suez and Port Said. Arriving Liverpool 1945/10/27
Post War
James died in East Yorkshire in 1996
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Far East Medals
Information
Ruth Hayward - Great Granddaughter
Battle For Hong Kong
Roger Mansell- Nagoya 2B
British Repatriation Rolls
Books on Hong Kong by Tony Banham:-
‘Not The Slightest Chance - The Defence of Hong Kong’
‘The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru’
‘We Shall Suffer There’
KEW Files:- WO 345/55, WO 392/26,
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