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 | Birth - 30 Aug 1916 - Ipswich, Suffolk |
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 | Census - Age: 4y 10m - 19 Jun 1921 - 43 London Road, Ipswich, Suffolk |
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 | Military - P.O.W. 17 Feb 1942 - 25 Apr 1943 During World War II and after the Fall of Singapore, Changi Prison became notorious for its role as a prisoner-of-war camp for Allied soldiers captured by the Japanese. During the occupation, the Japanese used the prison to house prisoners of war (POW) captured from all over the Asia-Pacific. Many of these prisoners were subjected to brutal treatment and forced labour, and a significant number died from malnutrition, disease, and mistreatment. - 17 Feb 1942 - Changhi P.O.W. Camp, Singapore |
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 | Military - P.O.W. 25 May - Nov 1943 Few prisoners of war, whatever their age or rank, can have endured a more harrowing experience than his, which included six months in the notorious camp at Songkurai, from which there emerged only 112 survivors of a British contingent originally numbering 1200. This contingent was responsible for the construction of a 15 kilometre stretch of the Burma-Siam railway which included a bridge over the River Kwai, a bridge made famous by the Hollywood film of that title which, unfortunately, projected an altogether misleading impression of the prisoners' relationship with their Japanese captors. - 25 May 1943 - Sonkurai P.O.W. Camp, Thailand |
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 | Military - Nov 1943 - 25 Apr 1944 A POW hospital camp was established at Kanchanaburi when the railway line construction had been completed. Men were brought back to these camps on stretchers off river barges or the railway. They suffered from diseases such as dysentery, malnutrition, beri beri, ulcers, pellagra and all of them had malaria. - Nov 1943 - Kanchanaburi P.O.W. Hospital Camp, Thailand |
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| Military - May 1944 until Liberated on 2 Sep 1945 - May 1944 - Changhi P.O.W. Camp, Singapore |
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 | Marriage - 14 Apr 1946 - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
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 | Address - From 1958 Cambridge Telephone Directory - 1958 - 27 Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridgeshire |
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 | Occupation - Brian was headmaster here for 33 years - 1947-1980 - Girton Glebe Primary School, Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridgeshire |
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| Death - 15 Nov 2002 - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
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1916 - 2002 (86 years)
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