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Warrant Officer Class II
Arthur Johnson
1912/02/11 - Born Peterborough
Son of Arthur and Doris Johnson
Occupation Grinder and Polisher
Royal Artillery
135 (The Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment
Japanese PoW
Captured Singapore
No.1 Group
PoW No. M964
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/10/22 - Overland to Thailand
14th train from Singapore to Thailand
1942/11 - Arrived Thailand
Transported back to Singapore.
1944/06/05 - Oversea to Japan in Japan Party 1 in Miyo Maru
1944/06/14 - The ship convoy of PoW ships sailed from Manila
1944/06/15 - The Miyo Maru was damaged on route from Philippines to Taiwan in a tornado.
1944/06/18 - The PoWs were transferred to the Tamahoko Maru
The Tamahoko Maru sailed for Japan .
1944/06/25 - The ship was attacked and sunk off the Nagasaki coast by US submarine Tang.
200 of the survivors were taken to Fukuoka Camp 14B.
560 PoWs died in the sinking.
New PoW No. 11477
Worked in mine
1945/03/17 - Transferred to Fukuoka 17B
PoW No. 659
Died
Age 33
1945/04/20 - 07.30 hours
Place of death Fukuoka 17B
Cause of death Edema - Inanition Hypostatic Pneumonia
Loved Ones
Son of Arthur and Ethel Johnson
Husband of Lily Johnson, of Peterborough, Northamptonshire
Memorial
Brit. Sec. P. A. 13.
Yokohama War Cemetery
Information
David Bedford
Japanese Transports
Japanese Homeland Camps
KEW:- WO 361/1475/2, WO 361/2171, WO 361/1660, WO 361/1745, WO 361/1745, WO 392/24, WO 345/28, WO 361/1623, WO 361/1745, WO 361/2166, WO 361/1377, WO 361/2186,
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