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Signalman
George Arthur Hill

1907/03/24 - Born Belper, Creswell Derbyshire
Son of Herbert Hill and Cicely (nee Thrall) Swinburne
1911 living with Grandmother Fanny Ellen Thrall in Belper
1927 - Married Lily Ward at Whitby, Yorkshire
Next of Kin Wife, Lily Bircoates, HDG Salon, Bircoates, Yorkshire
Royal Corps of Signals
28 Wing Section
Service
1940/11/14 - Enlisted
1942/05/11 - WO 417/43, Casualty List No. 820. Reported ‘Missing’.
1942/09/12 - WO 417/49, Correction to entry on Casualty List No. 820. The entry should be deleted. Listed in error. Now reported ‘Missing’.
1943/03/15 - WO 417/58, Casualty List No. 1083. Reported ‘Missing’.
1943/07/09 - WO 417/63, Casualty List No.1182. Previously shown on Casualty List No.1083 as Missing, 01/02/1943. Now reported a ‘Prisoner of War’.
1945/11/08 - WO417/99, Casualty List No. 1905. Previously shown on Casualty List No. 1182 as reported Prisoner of War now Not Prisoner of War. Previous Theatre of War, Netherlands East Indies.
Japanese PoW
1942/03/08 - Captured Java
PoW No. J-3414
1942/03/30 - Boei Glodok
1942/04/10 - Tanjung Priok
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/11/07 - Departed Java with Java Party 19
Sailed with 2097 PoWs
1943/11/10 - Arrived Palembang
Pangkalan Balei (outskirts of Palembang)
New PoW No. 5648
Camp Leader Lt-Col. Holmes
Work involved construction of two local airfields
In mid 1945 moved to Singapore
1945/05/30 - Arrived Changi
1945/06/18 - Kranji
1942/09/02 - Liberated Singapore
Liberation Questionnaire as filled in by George after being liberated.

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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Far East Medals
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Information
Recollections of War
Java Index
FEPOW Family
Commonwealth War Grave Commission
KEW Files:- Wo 392/24, WO 361/1947, WO 361/2219, WO 361/2002, WO 361/2189, WO 345/245,
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