Biography by Find-A-Grave contributor Steve S.
Harry was the son of Thomas James Conley (1882-1963) & Katherine Bedelia Miller (1879-1971).
Ensign Harry Francis Conley with the 11th Naval District, U.S. Navy from Long Beach, California, was listed as missing in action on Monday, 1 June 1942 in the Philippines.
He was taken prisoner by the Japanese when the US surrendered the Philippines.
On 6 November 1942 a group of 1500-1600 Allied prisoners were marched down to the pier in Manila and forced to climb aboard one of two old cattle transport ships. Ensign Harry F. Conley was put on the ship Nagato Maru. under poor conditions. The Nagato Maru arrived at Moji, Japan on 26 November 1942. A group of 400 of them (46 officers and 354 men) including Ensign Conley were selected by the Japanese and marched to the train station. They waited an hour in the outside cold, then boarded a train for an all-night trip to Kobe, Japan. A ferry then took the men from Kobe to Osaka POW Camp #3-D also known as Yodogawa POW Camp located on the south bank of the Yodogawa River just outside of Osaka, Japan.
The next day, Ensign Harry F. Conley (S/N 101155), U.S. Navy, was admitted along with 37 other patients in the newly established camp hospital. The doctor who examined them “found beri-beri plentiful, pellagra, pneumonia, flu, and much dysentery and diarrhea. Medicine soon we hope.” “Ensign Conley, our Naval officer present, was admitted suffering from intense and acute diarrhea.” On 1 May 1943 he died in the Yodogawa POW Camp of pneumonia, malnutrition & beriberi. Source: Yodogawa Diary - written by Louis Sontag, USMC & Major William B. Reardon from 26 Nov 1942 to 10 January 1943.
After the war his remains were brought to the USAF Mausoleum No. 1 in Manila Philippines. From there Ensign Harry Francis Conley was brought to California and he was buried on 28 October 1948 in his final resting place in the Golden Gate National Cemetery, Section J, Grave 668.
Harry was the son of Thomas James Conley (1882-1963) & Katherine Bedelia Miller (1879-1971).
Ensign Harry Francis Conley with the 11th Naval District, U.S. Navy from Long Beach, California, was listed as missing in action on Monday, 1 June 1942 in the Philippines.
He was taken prisoner by the Japanese when the US surrendered the Philippines.
On 6 November 1942 a group of 1500-1600 Allied prisoners were marched down to the pier in Manila and forced to climb aboard one of two old cattle transport ships. Ensign Harry F. Conley was put on the ship Nagato Maru. under poor conditions. The Nagato Maru arrived at Moji, Japan on 26 November 1942. A group of 400 of them (46 officers and 354 men) including Ensign Conley were selected by the Japanese and marched to the train station. They waited an hour in the outside cold, then boarded a train for an all-night trip to Kobe, Japan. A ferry then took the men from Kobe to Osaka POW Camp #3-D also known as Yodogawa POW Camp located on the south bank of the Yodogawa River just outside of Osaka, Japan.
The next day, Ensign Harry F. Conley (S/N 101155), U.S. Navy, was admitted along with 37 other patients in the newly established camp hospital. The doctor who examined them “found beri-beri plentiful, pellagra, pneumonia, flu, and much dysentery and diarrhea. Medicine soon we hope.” “Ensign Conley, our Naval officer present, was admitted suffering from intense and acute diarrhea.” On 1 May 1943 he died in the Yodogawa POW Camp of pneumonia, malnutrition & beriberi. Source: Yodogawa Diary - written by Louis Sontag, USMC & Major William B. Reardon from 26 Nov 1942 to 10 January 1943.
After the war his remains were brought to the USAF Mausoleum No. 1 in Manila Philippines. From there Ensign Harry Francis Conley was brought to California and he was buried on 28 October 1948 in his final resting place in the Golden Gate National Cemetery, Section J, Grave 668.
Biography by Find-A-Grave contributor Steve S.
Harry was the son of Thomas James Conley (1882-1963) & Katherine Bedelia Miller (1879-1971).
Ensign Harry Francis Conley with the 11th Naval District, U.S. Navy from Long Beach, California, was listed as missing in action on Monday, 1 June 1942 in the Philippines.
He was taken prisoner by the Japanese when the US surrendered the Philippines.
On 6 November 1942 a group of 1500-1600 Allied prisoners were marched down to the pier in Manila and forced to climb aboard one of two old cattle transport ships. Ensign Harry F. Conley was put on the ship Nagato Maru. under poor conditions. The Nagato Maru arrived at Moji, Japan on 26 November 1942. A group of 400 of them (46 officers and 354 men) including Ensign Conley were selected by the Japanese and marched to the train station. They waited an hour in the outside cold, then boarded a train for an all-night trip to Kobe, Japan. A ferry then took the men from Kobe to Osaka POW Camp #3-D also known as Yodogawa POW Camp located on the south bank of the Yodogawa River just outside of Osaka, Japan.
The next day, Ensign Harry F. Conley (S/N 101155), U.S. Navy, was admitted along with 37 other patients in the newly established camp hospital. The doctor who examined them “found beri-beri plentiful, pellagra, pneumonia, flu, and much dysentery and diarrhea. Medicine soon we hope.” “Ensign Conley, our Naval officer present, was admitted suffering from intense and acute diarrhea.” On 1 May 1943 he died in the Yodogawa POW Camp of pneumonia, malnutrition & beriberi. Source: Yodogawa Diary - written by Louis Sontag, USMC & Major William B. Reardon from 26 Nov 1942 to 10 January 1943.
After the war his remains were brought to the USAF Mausoleum No. 1 in Manila Philippines. From there Ensign Harry Francis Conley was brought to California and he was buried on 28 October 1948 in his final resting place in the Golden Gate National Cemetery, Section J, Grave 668.
Harry was the son of Thomas James Conley (1882-1963) & Katherine Bedelia Miller (1879-1971).
Ensign Harry Francis Conley with the 11th Naval District, U.S. Navy from Long Beach, California, was listed as missing in action on Monday, 1 June 1942 in the Philippines.
He was taken prisoner by the Japanese when the US surrendered the Philippines.
On 6 November 1942 a group of 1500-1600 Allied prisoners were marched down to the pier in Manila and forced to climb aboard one of two old cattle transport ships. Ensign Harry F. Conley was put on the ship Nagato Maru. under poor conditions. The Nagato Maru arrived at Moji, Japan on 26 November 1942. A group of 400 of them (46 officers and 354 men) including Ensign Conley were selected by the Japanese and marched to the train station. They waited an hour in the outside cold, then boarded a train for an all-night trip to Kobe, Japan. A ferry then took the men from Kobe to Osaka POW Camp #3-D also known as Yodogawa POW Camp located on the south bank of the Yodogawa River just outside of Osaka, Japan.
The next day, Ensign Harry F. Conley (S/N 101155), U.S. Navy, was admitted along with 37 other patients in the newly established camp hospital. The doctor who examined them “found beri-beri plentiful, pellagra, pneumonia, flu, and much dysentery and diarrhea. Medicine soon we hope.” “Ensign Conley, our Naval officer present, was admitted suffering from intense and acute diarrhea.” On 1 May 1943 he died in the Yodogawa POW Camp of pneumonia, malnutrition & beriberi. Source: Yodogawa Diary - written by Louis Sontag, USMC & Major William B. Reardon from 26 Nov 1942 to 10 January 1943.
After the war his remains were brought to the USAF Mausoleum No. 1 in Manila Philippines. From there Ensign Harry Francis Conley was brought to California and he was buried on 28 October 1948 in his final resting place in the Golden Gate National Cemetery, Section J, Grave 668.
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