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Surname:Harbottle
Initials:J
Rank:Lance Corporal
Army Number:7690436
Notes:CMP. POW. Captured 15/2/42 Singapore. Shown as in Japan in Cutts papers. Born 12/4/1913, enlisted 29/11/1940. Home address: 35 The Terrace, Prudhoe on Tyne, Northumberland. Prisons: Changi 15/2/1942 to 15/5/1942, Yakoma, Japan (Yakuma Ha-10) 11/6/1942 to 31/10/1943, Mororan, Japan (Muroran Ha-9) 31/10/1943 to 29/4/1945, Nisiasibetu, Japan, 29/10/1945 to 12/9/1945. MI 9/Jap/ No 934489A.
Info from Japanese POW Card Index: James Harbottle, Born 12/4/1913 at The Terrace, Prudhoe, Northumberland, Father James Watson Harbottle, Mothers name Jane Ann Harbottle, address: 35 The Terrace, Prudhoe, Northumberland, occupation Builder.
He is listed on the British POW's held in Japan and Japanese Occupied Territory: 21894, Harbottle, James, L/Cpl, 4690436, Army, captured 15/2/1945, liberated 2/9/1945, camp HA, Hakodate, Japan. He is listed on the Hakodate POW Camp Roll, Japan, 15/8/1945: British, 7690436, L/Cpl.
Casualty List 767/16, Malaya, Missing, 15/2/1942.
Casualty List 1149/9, previously reported missing now POW, previous list 767.
Casualty List 1914/19, previously reported POW not now POW, previous List 1149, Malaya.
12/9/48 he was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal.
Address:- 27 Errington Place, Prudhoe on Tyne, Northumberland.
James Harbottle.
Prisoner of War Record:
Imprisonment: Japan JAPAN 🇯🇵