HOWES REPORT

On Wake Island with Morrison Knudsen Constr. Co.-taken prisoner 23 Dec 1941
Wake IslandMalnutritionPOW*Family Bible Records say he died on Wake Island. Further research indicates he did not.According to a report by Claude D. Howes, Knudt Farstvedt died on Kyushu Island, Sasebo Camp # 18, on March 26, 1943 from Worms. Mr. Howes indicates he was buried near a Dam, (probably at Soto Dam, later disinterred and returned to the U.S.?) They were taken from Wake Island on September 30, 1942 (Tashibana Maru) arrived at Sasebo Camp # 18 on Oct. 13, 1842.
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From HOWES REPORT:
We lost 52 men while at Camp No. 18. Some died from pneumonia, some from worms, but all from lack of food. One man, Knudt Farstvedt, who lived at Clackamas, Oregon, died 3/26/43 from worms. After he died, a worm crawled out of his mouth. The men were buried in a cedar box filled with straw and layed to rest on a hill near the dam. Oreal Johnson acted as chaplain. Oreal Johnson acted as chaplain at all of these burials and did a very good job under the circumstances.

Burial (or memorial headstone?

Oak Hill Cemetery

Galena,Cherokee County,Kansas