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Originally Posted by janwhin
Another victim of "friendly fire" seems to have been Charles Hall (the Amble Memorial). He was a Lance Bombardier in the RA, missing in Burma in January 1945 and later presumed killed in action at sea 21 January 1945. The assumption being that he was being transported as a prisoner of war by the Japanese.
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I recall reading an account of a New Zealander on one of the Jap 'Hell Ships'. To say they were horrific would be a gross understatement.