Hello all. I've been investigating the history of my Dad, Allen E Armstrong, a Japanese POW, held in a mine between Hiroshema and Nagasaki from 1942 to 1945. Nearly three and a half years.. Below is a transcript of the events of one soldier, leaving Liverpool en route to Singapore, via India and Manilla. He mentions the Empress of Japan. This is the ship my Dad was on. A long but very interesting read. Keep a hanky handy. The arrival in Southampton says it all about the British.