2347800 Signalman Edwin 'Ted' Webster. Osaka POW Camp

[Nigel Cottle]

Signalman Webster had been working on the Burma - Thailand Railway. From June 1944 he was imprisoned in Funatsu Camp, Osaka where prisoners worked for the Matsui Mining Company. The first two attachments show the front and rear of an Osaka Type 1 cover. The enclosed letter is dated 23.1.1945. There in no UK censor mark indicating that the cover arrived in the UK after the Japanese surrender.
The Japanese symbols on the front translate as: Osaka POW Camp Passed by Censor with the seal of Fujimori and the four characters on the right hand side as Prisoner of War Post.
The symbols at the bottom left of the rear also translate as Osaka POW Camp.

The third scan, dated 18 Nov 1946, is a copy of the reply to Webster's disability pension claim. The disabilities listed are Dysentery, Malaria, Beri-beri, Dengue, Malnutrition, Tropical Ulcers and Synouitis of the right wrist. For all that he was awarded nine shillings and six pence (48p) per week for two years!!

[Howard Weinert]

I found another document concerning this man on fold3.com

See attached images.

[Nigel Cottle]

Thanks Howard. I wasn't aware of that website.