The information on registered seafarers is not in all cases complete. As new sources are studied, information on engagements and medals etc. will be added to some of the already registered seafarers.
Birger Anfinsen
- Date of birth
- December 14, 1918
- Date of death
- November 23, 1957
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- Norway
- Birthplace
- Bergen
- Place of living
- Valsengården 2, Bergen
- County
- Hordaland/Bergen
- Service
- Has sailed for shipping company
- Other
- Participant in WW2Prisoner during WW2
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Registernummer under krigen: London 10572, NY 8986.
Han ble tatt til fange av japanske styrker. Satt internert på Java fra 20. desember 1943 til 19. september 1945.
Publikumshenvendelse:
"Birger Anfinsen was on Java (Netherlands East Indies) when the Dutch surrendered on 8 March 1942. He became a POW in a camp on Java until september 1944. He was then selected to be brought to Sumatra to work there on the Pakanbaroe Railway that the Japanese forces were constructing. On 14 September 1944 he left his camp and boarded the Japanese ship JUNYO MARU. The ship left Batavia on 16 September and was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS TRADEWIND on 18 September, close to the port of Bengkoelen near the south coast of Sumatra. Anfinsen was one of the survivors of the attack. 5.620 prisoners on board died, making this one of the worst maritime disasters in history.
Anfinsen was then transported to Pakanbaroe, but also managed to survive the hardships as slave labourer on the Railway until the end of WW2."
Sources
RA/S-3545/G/Gg
Publikumshenvendelse til Arkivet freds- og menneskerettighetssenter (Dutch documents from the National Archive in The Hague, combined with British records from the National Archive in Kew)
Engagements (2)
- Ships
- M/T Ohio
- Nationality
- Panama
- Rank
- Motormann / Assistent
- Signed on
- Harbour: San Francisco, California, USA
Date: 4/10/1941 - Signed off
- Harbour: Surabaya, Java, Indonesia
Date: 11/19/1941
- Ships
- M/S Villanger
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Motorman
- Signed on
- Harbour: Rotterdam
Date: 6/30/1939 - Signed off
- Harbour: San Francisco, California, USA
Date: 3/19/1941
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Going through new source material in order to document the war sailors and their history is an ongoing and extensive effort, and there exist no complete register over decorations awarded. Infomation about medals will therefore be registered gradually and be based on different source materials. The war sailors were awarded medals both during and after the war. Do you want to read more about decorations, then please study this page: Decorations
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