South Yorkshire Times, October 23rd 1943
Prisoner Of Japs
Two years have elapsed since Mr. and Mrs. J. Tarmey, 63, Main Street, Goldthorpe, last heard from their son. Gunner James Tarmey, who left for the Far East just before the fall of Singapore, and was later reported missing, but this week they have received news that he is a prisoner of war in Fukuoka Camp.
Correspondence between Gunner Tarmey’s mother and the Paymaster of the Light A.A. Battery with which he served, during se two years, discloses that battery was at Singapore but left for Java before the capitulation, and after the fall of bases in Java continued to operate with British and Allied Forces which kept up resistance. Nothing was heard of the battery, and its members were posted missing in February this year.
Gunner Tarmey was formerly employed at Barnburgh Main Colliery, and joined up before his 18th birthday three years ago. His uncle, Pte. Edward Tarmey (30), of 1, Queen Street, Goldthorpe, is in a German prison camp, being captured at the fall of France when serving with the Pioneer Corps.