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5951241
Private
John Donner
1919/04/25 - Born Watford, Hertfordshire
Occupation Asbestos Moulder
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
5th Battalion
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
PoW No. 3085
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side One
1942/11/01 - Transported overland to Thailand in Letter Party ‘Q’
Under Lt-Col. D.R. Thomas, 5 Beds. & Herts.
649 PoWs in Party
Group 4
PoW No. 630
1944/07 - Transported to Singapore
1945/02/02 - Transported to Saigon, French Indo-China (Vietnam) in the Haruyasa Maru
New PoW No. 41173
These were mainly PoWs from the Thailand - Burma Railway
1945/02 - Saigon
1945/03 - Da Lat, north of Saigon
PoWs used to reinforce defences by digging tunnels throughout the hills with picks and shovels, which ended up as a ‘honeycomb of tunnels’.
1945/09/02 - Liberated
1945/09/13 - Released for Repatriation
Flown to Rangoon
Information
KEW:- WO 392/23, WO 345/15, WO 361/2005, WO 361/2169, WO 361/1987, WO 361/2069, WO 361/2059, WO 361/2176
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