Help needed Translation POW Cards Japanese

[Jack]

Hello all,
I have 2 POW cards that I need translated both are for British soldiers.Thank you in advance for any help.
Cheers Jack (Rob)

[Jack]

Thanks.

[Jareth]

Jack, I have a Japanese collector who usually translates for posters on my board at germandaggers.com It's on the international/Japanese board.

[Eric Queen]

Top one says sempaku yusoochuu kaigeki wo uke yukiofumei suezumaru

This persons whereabouts are unknown due to a torpeedo attack on the ship
( the Suez Maru ) that he was being transported on.

Day and time of dissaster ( Soonanjiki ) November 29, 1943 09:20

Location of dissaster ( Soonanichi ) 6 degrees south, 116 degrees east.

I will come back and look at the other one later.

[Jack]

Thankyou Jareth and Eric for your help.Eric my research says he was on the Lisbon Maru not the Suez Maru Looking forward to the other card been translated I will give details on what I have on him later.
Again thankyou for your help Jack(Rob)

[Eric Queen]

Rob,

Definately not the Lisbon Maru. What I can get from the second one is that this guy died on September 05, 1943 of Daichooen ( Colitis ). He was stricken with the disease ( Hatsubyou ) on May 01.

Place of death ( shiboubasho ) was Burma, and the name of the province/state I will have to phonetically write out. TENESARIUMU SHU.
(* the Japanese write Gairaigo ( foreign words ) in a sylabic writing system known as Katakana. Unfortunately all I am able to do is translate their sylabic katakana into our alphabet )

Its intersting that there is a notation as to how the corpse was taken care of. It seems that cremation ( kaso ) was the method of choice in this case.

[Jack]

Hello Eric,
Thank you for finding some time to read these cards.The second card is of greater interest as this fellow was executed by the Japanese in Sep 43 after he was caught trying to escape in Aug43 with 2 other fellows.His remains were found after the war and he is buried in the Thanbuzayat Cemetry (Burma).If you can read the rest of the card or maybe some one else that would be great.
Cheers jack(Rob)

[Eric Queen]

Its interesting that they state he died of Colitis, eventhough he was actually executed ( perhaps this was for the benefit of the International Red Cross inspectors who I believe examined these POW facilities and records from time to time )

The fact that he was cremated and that remains were found after the war are consistant in this case though. When the Japanese cremate corpses, they do so at a level of heat where all bones remain. In the west, or at least in America, this is not the case. Everything is turned to dust. Japanese always bury the bones after cremation, and these, I assume, were the remains in question.

[Jack]

Hello Eric ,
thank you again for your time on this card.I did not know about the cremation aspect.
Cheers Jack(Rob)