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Private
Joseph Hancock
The Loyal Regiment
2nd Battalion
Joe is pictured bottom left
Joe’s Pay Book finishing abruptly on 6th February 1942
 
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
1942/08/16 - Transported on the Fukkai Maru to Takao/ Pusan, Korea
Joe was held in Konan, Korea.
Survived the Japanese Camps
Joe was transported in the ‘HMS Collossus’ from Hinsen to Manilla. Then in the ‘General Brewster’ to San Francisco, from there he reached home from Halifax in the ‘Queen Elizabeth I’ which docked at Southampton 1945/11/05.
Joe never married and never got over those years as a Japanese PoW.
Many thanks to Philip Duval for supplying the information and photos
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