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847699
Gunner
Victor Percy Hopper
1916/08/19 - Born Dover, Kent
To Percy (born 1895) and Alice (nee Flack) Hopper
(Percy and Alice were married 1913)
1935/07/02 - Victor Enlisted
Royal Artillery
88 Field Regiment
1942/02/15 - WO 417/41, Reported Missing
WO 417/67, Previous reported missing now confirmed a PoW
WO 417/99, Confirmed a PoW in Malaya
Japanese PoW
PoW No. 1266
Japanese Index Card - Side One
(15 Spring Road, Berks is not where he was borm)
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/03/20 - transported to overland to Thailand in ‘D’ Force, train 54
Train 6 in ‘D’ Force Group
New PoW No. IV 10647
New PoW No. IV 42337
1944/06 - Transported back to Singapore
Commander Captain Wilkie
1944/09/04 - Transported to Japan in Rakuyo Maru, part of Japan Party 3
Commander Captain Wilkie
1944/09/12 - Rakuyo Maru attacked and sunk by American submarine USS Sealion
It is estimated that 1159 PoWs died in the Rakuyo Maru sinking
57 survivors of Rakuyo Maru and 520 survivors from Kachodoki Maru were rescued by Japanese and taken to Yulin, Hainan.
1944/09/16 - Departed Yulin in the Kibitsu Maru stopping at Keelung, Taiwan
1944/09/25 - Kibitsu Maru departed Keeling for Moji, Japan
1944/09/28 - Arrived Moji, Japan
1944/09/30 - Fukuoka 25B - Shinkai-Machi, Omuda-Shi Fukuoka-Ken
PoW No. 14264
1944/09/31 - Fukuoka 25B Established with 289 men; 11 of the Wilkies party were left at Moji Hospital
All of the original 289 men at camp opening were survivors of the Kachidoki and Rakuyo hellship sinkings.
From original Roll:-
No. 158; Hopper, Victory. Gnr. Wife, 15 Spring Rd, Avington, Bath. Age 29. Healthy
1945/09/16 - Liberated
Post War
1947 - Married Sylvia Laurie, in Southend-on-Sea
Died
1978
Southend-on-Sea
Information
Carly Morris
Keith Andrews
Hell Ships
Japanese Homeland Camps
KEW:- WO 361/1742, WO 361/1940, WO 361/1742, WO 345/26, WO 361/734, WO 361/734, WO 361/2005, WO 361/1254, WO 361/1987, WO 361/2169, WO 361/2060, WO 361/2070, WO 361/2185, WO 361/1586,
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