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Mark, there is no Whelan POW on our database unless he gave a different name which sometimes happened. Do you know which year did he died?

He died in 1943 aged 93.
The part I am interested in as well is the link to East London - he lived there for quite a few years after the AB War. Was there a British POW internment/transit camp there? And did any of the ships with POWs sail from there?

There were no British POW Camps in East London, ships sail from Durban and Cape Town.

See this link: www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=1297968

Plumstead, Cape Town