Kanyu Camp - Working Men -2b

Sketch by Jack Chalker

FEPOW Family
Far Eastern Heroes
Sumatra Album
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Signalman

George Arthur Hill

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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

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Japanese Index Card - Side Two

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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

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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FEPOW Family

www.fepow.family

Honorary Life Membership

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COFEPOW

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Ron.Taylor@far-eastern-heroes.org.uk

 

 

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