Ref: DR17211
- £175.00
Malaya. (Prisoner of War Mail). 1942. Malaya the first Prisoner of War card headed 'Furyo Yubin' (Prisoner of War Post) with pre-printed 'Furyo Shuyosho/ Ken'etsuzumi' and hand-stamped 'Marai' (Malaya) in violet with circular "Okazuki" censor seal, addressed to London with framed 'Crown/ Passed / PW 6101' in crimson on face.
Signalman May was taken Prisoner by the Japanese with the fall of Singapore February 15th 1942 and brought to Taiwan with 500 hundred other British POW's on the "Dai Nichi Maru" at first to 'Taichu Camp No 2' and later Taihoku Camp No 6'. This is the first card he wrote to his wife from Singapore informing her he was now a POW.
