EDWARD TERRENCE CADLE

EDWARD WAS BORN IN 1918 IN SWANSEA.UNTIL HIS FATHER DIED IN 1931
EDWARD WORKED ON THE FAMILY'S FARM.HE WAS THE BROUGHT UP WITH HIS SYBLINGS BY HIS ELDER SISTER RUTH.

TERRY ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL ARTILLERY UPON THE OUTBREAK OF WW2. HE JOINED THE 8TH COASTAL REGIMENT AND WAS POSTED TO HONG KONG. ALL WAS QUIET THERE UNTIL

 JAPAN ENTERED THE WAR AND ATTACKED HONG  KONG. ON 25th DECEMBER 1941, HONG KONG  SURRENDERED AND TERRY WAS TAKEN  PRISONER. HE WAS SENT TO SHAMSHUIPO CAMP,  AND STAYED THERE UNTIL 27TH SEPTEMBER 1942,  WHEN HE BOARDED THE " HELLSHIP " LISBON  MARU

 ALONG WITH 1815 OTHER PRISONERS. THEY
 WERE LOADED INTO THE HOLDS, TERRY INTO  HOLD NO. 3.ALSO ON BOARD WERE 778
 JAPANESE SOLDIERS.

THE CONDITIONS IN THE HOLD WERE VERY CRAMPED, WITH THE PRISONERS HAVING TO STAND UP.THE SHIP SET SAIL FOR JAPAN.

ON 30TH SEPTEMBER, THE LISBON MARU AND HER ACCOMPANING SAMPANS WERE SPOTTED BY THE SUBMARINE, USS GROUPER. THE SUNMARINE SPED AHEAD TO WAIT FOR WHAT SHE BELIEVED TO BE A JAPANESE TROOPSHIP... THE LISBON MARU!

ON THE 1ST OCTOBER SHE FIRED A TOTAL OF 6 TORPEDOES AT THE LISBON MARU.ALTHOUGH HIT, THE LISBON MARU ONLY BEGAN TO LIST. TO PREVENT THE PRISONERS FROM ESCAPING, THE HOLDS WERE COVERED IN TARPAULINS AND BATTONED DOWN, PLUNGING THE HOLDS INTO DARKNESS.THE FOLLOWING DAY THE SHIP BEGAN TO SINK, CAUSING THE PRISONERS TO BREAK OUT. THE JAPANESE SOLDIERS FIRED AT THE PRISONERS IN THE WATER, MANY DIED THIS WAY.

TERRY WAS SEEN SWIMMING AWAY, BUT NEVER FOUND.

ONLY 970 MEN SURVIVED THE SINKING.

THE SAI WAN MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE MEN MISSING DURING THE HONG KONG CAMPAIGN AND THE SINKING OF THE LISBON MARU

TERRY IS REMEMBERED ON COLUMN 3.