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Name: John (Jack) McFerran Cassidy
DOB: 10th October 1919
Rank: Joiner 4th Class
Service Identity Number: P/UDX1320
Service/Regiment/Corp: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Unit: HMS Tamar
Died: 29th June 1943
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Jack was born in Belfast and joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve when he was 16 and trained on HMS Caroline in Belfast Lough. He was an apprentice joiner. He was on a cruise in the Mediterranean aboard HMS Caroline when war broke out and at age 19 he never saw home again.
I understand he was on the Atlantic convoys then posted to the Far East and Hong Kong. He was captured on Victoria Peak on Christmas Day 1941 and then spent time in a POW camp before being boarded onto the Lisbon Maru along with the other prisoners. Somehow he managed to escape the hold after the torpedo attack but was then recaptured. He ended up in a POW camp in Osaka where he died in June 1943.
The above information was provided by Katy Howes, niece of John McFerran Cassidy.
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