G'day Sharon ...
I put a working version of the 2/4th link in a previous message ...
My Royal James BAGGS was also on his way from Singapore to Japan. The
official story was kept under wraps but this is what the family has held
to be true ...
"He died as a prisoner of war in 1944 after the Japanese ship he was
being held
on was torpedoed near Singapore while taking a large number of British
Empire
personnel as POWs from Singapore to Japan. WX 9864 Private (2/4 Aust Machine
Gun Battalion AIF)."
Rob!
On 27/03/2017 4:39 PM, Sharon. McBride wrote:
Hi Betty,
I couldn't get the link to work to look at the 2/4 page. Attached is a photo
taken at the end of the war in Japan of some of the J Force survivors before
they were returned home. My husbands uncle Mick McBride is first on left front
row. He was sent to Japan after surviving the Burma Railway and was at the
Ohama 9B coal mine. Also attached is a list of names of those in the photo,
some 2/4 men's names aren't known, perhaps your dad may be one of them? Another
of my husbands uncles was in the 2/4 but unfortunately was sent to Sandakan and
was one of the two and a half thousand young men murdered there. Lest we forget.
