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Aircraftsman 1st Class

Stanley George Leggett

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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

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Japanese Index Card - Side Two

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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

General R.L. Howze

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

War Medal

1939-1945 Star

 

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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