E29987
Lance Corporal
Robert Burns Barter
1921/12/18 - Born
Royal Rifles of Canada
1st Battalion
‘D’ Company
Service
1941/10/27 - Members of ‘C’ Force who embarked from Vancouver on the ships Awatea and Prince Robert bound for Hong Kong.
On arrival quartered at Nanking Barracks, Shamshuipo Camp, in Kowloon.
Japanese PoW
1941/12/25 - Captured Kong Kong
PoW Camps:-
1941/12/25 - Stanley
1941/12/30 - North Point
1942/09/26 - Shamshuipo
1943/01/19 - Transported to Japan in Tatsuta Maru
1943/01/22 - Arrived Nagasaki, Japan
Omine Camp, Japan
Worked in coal mine till liberation
Information
Dan James
Tony Banham
Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association
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