|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tamahoko Maru
|
|
Roll
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Australian Army Medical Corps
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Japanese POW
|
|
Nationality:-
|
|
|
Place of Capture:-
|
Java
|
|
1944/05/19:-
|
Kiska Maru to Singapore in Java Party 20
|
|
1944/05/21:-
|
Arrived Singapore
|
|
1944/06/03:-
|
Departed in Miyo Maru - Japan Party 1
|
|
1944/06/11:-
|
Arrived Manilla, Philippines
|
|
1944/06/14:-
|
Departed for Taiwan
|
|
|
Miyo Maru badly damaged in Typhoon but reached Taiwan.
|
|
1944/06/18:-
|
At Takao, Taiwan PoWs transferred to Tamahoko Maru. As it was a cargo ship the holds held copper ore.
|
|
1944/06/24:-
|
Attacked by USS Tang. Two torpedoes hit the Tamahoko Maru and there was a large explosion, within two minutes the ship sunk to the bottom.
|
|
Notes:-
|
|
Alias: Tomohoku Maru, Yone Maru. Tamahoko Maru was torpedoed 1944/06/24 by USS Tang. Carrying 772 prisoners, 560 died.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Age:-
|
|
|
Date:-
|
|
|
Cause of Death:-
|
|
POW lost in the Tamahoko Maru
|
|
|
Place of Death:-
|
|
Approximate position 40 miles S.W. of Nagasaki
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loved Ones
|
|
Son of Matthew and Alice McNamara, of Mosman, New South Wales, Australia. Medical Practitioner, M.B., B. Ch.
|
|
|
|
|
Memorial
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
