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P/SSX33274
Able Seaman
Robert Ernest Callcut
1922/06/30 - Born Sutton, Surrey
Son of Robert William and Emily Florence (nee Jury) Callcut
Next of Kin Parents, Robert W and Emily Callcutt, Stayton Road, Sutton
Royal Navy
Service
At Hong Kong when it fell to the Japanese.
Japanese Money
* In possession of a Wren in the Canadian Navy during WWII
Japanese PoW
1941/12/25 - Captured Hong Kong
Sham Shui Po Camp, Hong Kong
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/12/15 - Transported oversea the Soong Chaeong, the 5th Draft to Japan
This draft included 563 Canadian and British PoWs
Off Taiwan the engines gave out and the men were transferred to the Toyama Maru which then sailed to Japan.
1944/01/16 - Osaka 11B - Narumi
PoWs worked for Daido Electric Steel Company and made wheels at the Nippon Wheel (Vehicle) Mfg. Company
1945/04/06 - Jurisdiction and name changed to Nagoya 2B - Narumi
1945/09/02 - Food drops by B-29s 315 Bomb Wing
1945/09/06 - Liberated
Repatriation
'USS Admiral Hughes'
1945/09/24 - Departed Manila
1945/10/09 - British disembarked Victoria, Canada.
British then entrained to the East Coast.
Transported in Queen Elizabeth to Southampton.
*As Robert disembarked at Victoria, Canada while being Repatriated it is possible it is the reason for the Japanese 10 yen paper money being in the Canadian Wrens possession.
* It is also possible that being with Canadian PoWs, it was handed to a Canadian PoW as a keepsake.
Post War
1946 - Robert married Joan L D Mackenzie in Surrey
Information
Anna Guertin
Roger Mansell Web Site
Tony Banham Books:-
KEW Files:- WO 392/23, WO 345/08,
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