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Leading Aircraftman
Hugh Meirion Morgan
1921/04/02 - Born
Son of David Marlais and Catherine Morgan
1939/10/03 - Enlisted
Royal Air Force
232 Squadron
Service
Duty Location Moluccas
Japanese PoW
1942/03/08 - Captured Java
PoW No. 4607
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/10/29 - Transported oversea in Oyo Maru from Java to Singapore
1942/10/30 - Transported from Singapore in the Tofuku Maru to Moji, Japan
1942/11/27 - Arrived Moji, Japan - 27 PoWs dying on route to Japan
1942/12/01 - Hakodate, Japan (Established temporarily at the site of Hakodate Quarantine, 27 Dai-machi, Hakodate City)
1942/12/26 - Camp officially established
Worked for Hakodate Ship Building Company
1945/06/07 - PoWs moved to Bibai, Japan
Worked for Mitsui Mining Company
1945/09/11 - Liberated
British at Bibai, Japan when Liberated
(courtesy of British POW Jim Crinion)
Liberation Questionnaire
Repatriation
USS Marine Shark
1945/10/10 - Departed Manila, Destination San Francisco, California.
1945/11/01 - Arrived, the British then entrained to the East Coast and transported home in the Queen Mary to Southampton
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Information
Ann Adair-Austin - Supplied photo of her father, Hugh
Liberation Questionnaire
Japanese Transports
British Repatriation Rolls - FEPOW Family
KEW Files:- WO 361/1969, WO 392/25, WO 345/36, WO 361/2009, WO 361/2211,
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