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Thorwald HANSEN (aka Carl) [1897-1945]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Sat, 12/23/2023 - 02:10

Able-Bodied Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp.  From San Francisco. 

Harry GOLDMAN [c.1875-1945]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Thu, 12/21/2023 - 01:21

Chief Engineer aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp.  Died on February 17 or 18, 1945, and buried in Bowen Cemetery, Hong Kong.  Jewish, from San Francisco, three siblings.

Loren Anthony DISPER [1920-1994]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:27

Radioman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp.  Liberated September 1945.  Prewar, he was unmarried and from Los Angeles.

 

Paul W. DAVIS [????-1944]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 21:12

Oiler in the engine room of the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp.  From Los Angeles.  Postwar, buried in Honolulu National Cemetery.

Harold CHRISTENSEN [????-1942]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Sun, 12/17/2023 - 22:54

Oiler in the engine room of the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp.  Died of heart failure, with malnutrition and dysentery likely contributing factors. 

Michael Jr. CASALE [1918-????]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Fri, 12/15/2023 - 20:35

Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.  Interned at Stanley.  Repatriated in August 1942. 

Charles G. BUTLER [1904-????]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Thu, 12/14/2023 - 00:24

Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Interned at Stanley, where he worked in the camp kitchen.  Repatriated in August 1942. 

August Louis BLAICH [????-????]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Tue, 12/12/2023 - 20:37

Wiper (engine room position) aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp.  Liberated September 1945.  Lived in Oakland, California prewar.

Charles Wigton ADAMS [1904-????]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Mon, 12/11/2023 - 23:50

Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Interned at Stanley, where he worked in the camp kitchen.  Repatriated in August 1942.  From Omaha, NB.