These names are from the War Memorial at the 106th (Yeomanry) Regiment, RA (V) [Territorial Army Unit] at Grove Park, Lewisham. The details below are from various online resources and the Regimental Museum. This information it is hoped will help to commemorate and preserve the memory of those named on this memorial.
ALLEN, WILLIAM JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1119433], when he died aged 29 on 08/06/1943. He is the son of William Alfred Allen, and of Rhoda H. Allen, of Woodley, Cheshire. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. M. 9. He was captured 15 February 1942. He is also remembered on the War Memorial at Bredbury, Cheshire. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
ALLSOPP, WILLIAM HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1108691, when he died aged 21 on 13/02/1942. He was born in 1920 in Basford, Nottingham and was the son of Cyril and Lucy [nee Chambers] Allsopp, of Nottingham; husband of Olive Gilberte Allsopp. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 12. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
AMER, ROBERT WILLIAM, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901373], when he died aged 35 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1908 in Holborn, London and was the son of Robert William and Marie Catherine Amer; husband of Eva Victoria May Amer, of Bromley, Kent. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 9. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He was captured 15 February 1942. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
ANDERSON, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112241], when he died aged 33 on 30/08/1943. He was born in 1910 in the Isle of Sheppey Registration District and was the son of Thomas William and Alice Anderson, of Rainham, Kent; husband of Kathleen Mary Anderson, of Rainham. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B1. B. 5. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
ANDERSON, SIDNEY CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902254], when he died aged 24 on 11/06/1943. He is the son of Frederick William and Mary Ann Anderson, of Catford. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B4. L. 7. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
ANSELL, CLIFFORD PETER HEASMAN, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908540], when he died aged 24 on 29/01/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Steyning Registration District and was the son of Joseph William Ansell, and of Margaret Anne [nee Armstrong] Ansell, of Beckenham, Kent. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. J. 28. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
ANDREWS, LAURENCE ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910615], when he died aged 21 on 05/07/1940. He was born in 1919 in St Olave Registration district area of London and was the son of Arthur Charles Comley Andrews and Ethel Maud [Nee Morriss] Andrews, of Eltham. He is buried at St. John the Baptist Churchyard, Eltham, Sec. A. Grave 377. He died in the UK prior to the regiment leaving for overseas service.
ASHFORD, CHARLES JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112973], when he died aged 28 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1916 in the Fulham, London Registration District and is the so of Charles William and Agnes E A [nee Gibbs] Ashford. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 12. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He was captured 15 February 1942. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
AYRES, GEORGE EDWARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1089342], he was aged 21 when he died 03/02/1942. He was born in 1911 in the Edmonton Registration District and was the son of Thomas and Ellen Ayres; husband of Louisa Ayres, of Enfield, Middlesex. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, Sp. Mem. 23. A. 1. This reference to a `Sp Mem.’ is different from the Singapore Memorial, which stands in the same cemetery. Another memorial in this cemetery is the Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial, which stands at the eastern end of the Singapore Memorial. As he died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese it is possibly the memorial that this reference refers to. During the last hours of the Battle of Singapore a huge number of wounded civilians and servicemen taken prisoner by the Japanese were brought to the hospital. The number that died was so large that burial in the normal manner was impossible. An emergency water tank which was dug before the war in the grounds of the hospital was used as a grave for more than 400 civilians and Commonwealth servicemen. After the war, it was decided that as individual identification of the dead would be impossible, the grave should be left undisturbed. The grave was suitably enclosed, consecrated by the Bishop of Singapore, and a cross in memory of all of those buried there was erected over it by the military authorities. See regimental history for more details.
BAKER, CHARLES HERBERT, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902323], when he died aged 25 on 02/06/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Stepney, London Registration District and was the son of John Richard and Daisy [nee Abbott] Baker, of Ipswich, Suffolk. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. H. 18. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BALDOCK, VICTOR ALFRED, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1074819], when he died aged 35 on 02/09/1943. He was born 18 Oct 1907 in Rye, Sussex and was the son of William James Baldock [Born: 3 May 1874, Rye, Sussex, son of William James BALDOCK (1847 - 1924) and Eliza NASH (1850 - 1921). He died: 8 Aug 1916, Workhouse Infirmary, Rye, Sussex aged 42] and Elizabeth He married Maria Elizabeth Baldock [Nee Curd] (17 Apr 1876 in Rye, Sussex, christened on 6 Aug 1876 in Rye, Sussex and died on 21 Sep 1943 in Kings Avenue, Rye, Sussex she was the daughter of Edward Curd (1849 - ) and Elizabeth Curd (c. 1854 - ). His parents married on 29 Mar 1896 in Rye, Sussex. He was the husband of Elizabeth Frances Ivy Baldock, of Appledore, Kent. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 5. F. 1. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
BALL, JAMES WILLIAM, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 946124], when he died aged 26 on 12/09/1944. He was born in Lewisham Registration district and was the son of Howard James Ball and Katherine Ball [nee Reed]; husband of Margaret Ball, of Eastbourne, Sussex. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 4. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He was captured 15 February 1942. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
BALL, W F, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 6205587], when he died aged 23 on 27/06/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Sp. Mem. 9. M. 4. He died after the war in Japan before he could return home. From his date of death and the location of his memorial he was one of the cholera epidemic victims in Niki or Nieke camp. See regimental history for more details. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BAMPTON, ERNEST JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964371], when he died aged 28 on 24/09/1945. He was born in 1917 in Camberwell Registration District and was the son of Ernest and Alice [nee Davis] Bampton, of East Dulwich. He is buried at Yokohama War Cemetery, Brit. Sec. R. B. 12. He died after the war in Japan before he could return home.
BARDWELL, BERTRAM GEORGE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910575], when he died aged 21 on 10/12/1942. He was born in 1921 in the Yarmouth Registration District and was the son of Bertram Charles and Ruth [Nee Downs] Bardwell, of Lowestoft, Suffolk. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 64. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BARNES, ALFRED EDWARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112245], when he died aged 34 on 06/07/1943. He was born about 1909 and was the son of Alfred and Katie Adeline [Nee Walter] Barnes; husband of Ethel Eileen Barnes, of Tonbridge, Kent. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 29. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BASHAM, BENNETT THOMAS, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 913693], when he died aged 30 on 18/08/1943. He was born in 1915 in the Dartford Registration District and was the son of Benjamin Basham, and of Rose [Nee Webb] Basham, of Bromley, Kent; husband of Constance Elsie Basham, of Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk. Benjamin and Rose had married in the Dartford Registration District in 1913 and had had at least 3 other children [all girls] Ivy RG [1914], Lily M [1917] and Minnie M [1922]. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. U. 7. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details. His brother Sidney Robert died 29/08/1943 and is also buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.
BASHAM, SIDNEY ROBERT, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 913698], when he died aged 24 on 29/08/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Dartford Registration District and was the son of Benjamin Basham, and of Rose [Nee Webb] Basham, of Bromley, Kent. Benjamin and Rose had married in the Dartford Registration District in 1913 and had had at least 3 other children [all girls] Ivy RG [1914], Lily M [1917] and Minnie M [1922]. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. F. 2. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details. His brother Bennett Thomas died 18/08/1943 and is also buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.
BASTON, RONALD GEORGE, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 943422], when he died aged 25 on 12/09/1944. He was born 1 June 1919 at Dover, Kent and was the son of Sidney Lewis Baston and Daisy Marion [Nee Dear] Baston, of Dover. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 9. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He is also commemorated in the Service Casualties Book of Remembrance at Dover, Kent. He was captured 15 February 1942. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
BAYLIS, EDWARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112247], when he died aged 34 on 15/11/1943. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 6. E. 2. He was captured 15 February 1942; He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
BENDON, ELIAS, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101504], when he died aged 34 on 13/02/1942. He is the son of Issac and Sadie Bendon, of Brighton, Sussex. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 13. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
BONE, ALBERT RAISEBERRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901348], when he died aged 27 on 01/08/1943. He was born in 1916 in Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Raiseberry and Mabel Maria [Nee Phillips] Bone [Note: step mother], of Lewisham. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. H. 33. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BOODLE, THOMAS, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1078817], when he died aged 27 on 04/05/1943. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 8. N. 1. He was captured 15 February 1942. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
BRADLEY, FREDERICK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908509], when he died aged 23 on 17/08/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Coll. grave 10. F. 2-10. L. 4. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BREAKSPEAR, ALBERT WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101506], when he died aged 35 on 27/09/1943. He was born in 1908 in West Ham Registration District. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B4. Y. 16. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
BREACKER, RONALD VICTOR, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 905157], when he died aged 23 on 27/11/1943. He was born in 1920 in Greenwich Registration District and was the son of Albion Charles and Charlotte Elizabeth Breacker [Nee Bunnett], of Charlton. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. S. 2. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
BRETT, EDGAR, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 954491], when he died aged 26 on 03/07/1943. He was born in 1917 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Edgar and Mabel Brett [Nee Holland[s]], of Crowborough, Sussex. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 4. J. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
BRIARS, GEORGE WILLIAM, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 818455], when he died aged 30 on 29/11/1944. He was born in 1913 in Croydon Registration District and was the son of William and Agnes Briars [Nee Tarry], of Croydon, Surrey; husband of Nellie May Briars, of Patcham, Brighton, Sussex. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. K. 26. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BROADHURST, WILLIAM CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1558475], when he died aged 26 on 26/10/1943. He was born in 1915 in the Pancras London Registration District and was the son of William Charles and Emily Jane Broadhurst [Nee Aslett], of St. Pancras. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. T. 4. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
BROOKS, HENRY JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1106180], when he died aged 33 on 13/02/1942. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 14. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
BROOME, DONALD PETER, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1085908], when he died aged 22 on 20/06/1942. He was born in 1920 in Kingston, Surrey Registration District and was the son of Walter Frederick and Beatrice Broome [Nee Brockwell], of Wilmington Common, Dartford, Kent. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 9. C. 17. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
BROWN, ARTHUR THOMAS WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112255], when he died aged 34 on 15/07/1943. He was born in 1909 in the West Ham Registration District and is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. C. 61. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BROWN, ERNEST WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112256], when he died aged 34 on 15/09/1943. He was born in 1909 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of William Ernest and Violet Mabel Brown [Nee Cornforth]; husband of Mary Emma Brown, of Battersea. London. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. J. 51. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BROWN, GEORGE CHARLES ATTON, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 944677], when he died aged 24 on 24/06/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Islington, London Registration District and was the son of George Francis and Charlotte Emily Brown [Nee Atton], of Barnsbury. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. A. 9. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BROWN, JACK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964476], when he died aged 25 on 16/01/1944. He was born in 1917 in the Dartford Registration District and was the son of Job and Ethel Maud Brown [Nee Davies], of Northfleet, Kent. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 1. E. 2. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
BUBB, LEONARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1106199], when he died aged 22 on 16/06/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. A. 11. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BUCK, MAURICE WILLIAM JOHN, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901390], when he died aged 24 on 04/07/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of John Arthur Ernest Buck, and of Freda Sadler Buck [Nee Borrett], of Worcester Park, Surrey. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Coll. grave 10. F. 2-10. L. 4. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BURCHELL, ARTHUR EDWARD GERALD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112260] when he died 29/10/1943. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 6. M. 15. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
BURNS, ALAN DOUGLAS, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1108695], when he died aged 33 on 27/07/1943. He was born in 1908 in the Coventry Registration District and was the son of Francis Hugh and Gertrude May Burns [Nee Button], of Long Eaton, Derbyshire; husband of Phyllis Burns, of Long Eaton. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. B. 8. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
BURROWS, THOMAS, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1119516], when he died aged 34 on 15/06/1943. He is the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Burrows, of Manchester; husband of Beatrice Burrows, of Longsight, Manchester. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. H. 13. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BURT, HARRY ERNEST, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1084190], when he died aged 31 on 14/11/1943. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B6. V. 2. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
BUSBY, ROBERT GEORGE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1106333], when he died aged 33 on 15/06/1943. He was born in the Aylesbury Registration District and was the son of Robert and Florence Elizabeth Busby [Nee Clarke]. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. A. 13. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
BUTLER, BERNARD FRANK, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 915391], when he died aged 28 on 19/09/1943. He was born in 1914 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Frank Augustus and Violet Lilian Butler, of New Eltham. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 6. J. 14. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
BUTTERS, FRANK GEORGE ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902321], when he died aged 23 on 19/11/1943. He was born in 1920 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Frank John and Alice Butters [Nee Gibbins], of Downham, Bromley, Kent. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B4. X. 10. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
CAMPBELL, JAMES TOM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 984867], when he died aged 29 on 15/06/1944. He is the son of James Tom and Helen Campbell; husband of Margaret Campbell, of Maryhill, Glasgow. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 15. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
CARTWRIGHT, ROLAND ALBERT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910108], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of Albert Edward and Ethel Rose Cartwright, of Lewisham. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 15. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
CHALK, HENRY HUMULL, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964383], when he died aged 26 on 26/07/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 48. He was born in 1917 in the Maidstone Registration District and died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
CHALMERS, JOSEPH ALLEN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1087624] when he died 20/06/1943. He is the son of Albert Edwin and Beatrice Chalmers; husband of Minnie Doris Chalmers, of Barnet, Hertfordshire. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 8. N. 3. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
CHRISTIAN, GEORGE FREDERICK, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908678], when he died aged 23 on 25/08/1943. He was born in 1920 in the Camberwell Registration District and was the son of George William and Lois Christian [Nee Hoskins], of Peckham. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. B. 17. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
CLELLAND, JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1076097], when he died aged 28 on 23/06/1943. He is the son of James and Mary Clelland, of Glasgow; nephew of Helen Clelland Byers, of Glasgow. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Sp. Mem. 9. M. 9. From his date of death and the location of his memorial he was one of the cholera epidemic victims in Niki or Nieke camp. See regimental history for more details. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
CODRINGTON, GEORGE ALBERT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1103289], when he died aged 23 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1920 in the Holborn Registration District and was the son of Joseph W and Louisa I Codrington [Nee Lancaster]. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 15. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
COLEMAN, FRANK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909984], when he died aged 22 on 05/05/1943. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 12. A. 2. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
COLLIER, HENRY VICTOR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1084191] he died 23/11/1942. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. E. 71. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
COLLINSON, CYRIL, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1123239], when he died aged 36 on 11/08/1943. He is the son of Frank and Elizabeth Collinson; Husband of Milly Collinson, of Hazel Grove, Cheshire. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. J. 36. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
COLLISCHONN, KENNETH CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1089179] when he died 13/12/1943. He was born in 1911 in Brentford Registration District and was the son of Harold G and Elizabeth L Collischonn [Nee Hamblen], of Thornton Heath, Surrey. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 3. M. 7. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
CONSTABLE, ROBERT WILLIAM GEORGE, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 900318], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of Robert Henry and Alice Olivier Constable. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 9. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
COOPER, ALFRED JOHN CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 911261], when he died aged 24 on 31/12/1942. He was born in 1918 in the St Olave, London Registration District and was the son of Alfred William and Mehalia or Nehalia Jane Cooper [Nee Farrell], of Karori, Wellington, New Zealand. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 70. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
CORY, ANDREW WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 946126], when he died aged 24 on 20/08/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Lambeth, London Registration District and was the son of John Loombe Cory and Margaret Harriet Cory [Nee Lawrence], of Bush Hill Park, Middlesex. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. C. 17. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
COX, HAROLD STEPHEN, Lance Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901360], when he died aged 23 on 03/06/1943. He is the son of William Harold and Elsie Constance Cox, of Welling, Kent. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. P14. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
CREES, BENJAMIN JAMES, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901307] when he died aged 28 on 25/09/1943. He was born in 1915 in the Devizes Registration District and was the son of Thomas B. and Lucy Evelyn Crees [Nee Francis], of Northmarden, Sussex; husband of Christine Mary Crees, of Chiswick, Middlesex. He is buried at Yokohama War Cemetery, Brit. Sec. J. A. 6. He is also remembered on a brass memorial plaque at St Mary’s Church, North Marsden, West Sussex. The inscription reads `Benjamin James Crees/10-7-1915 – 25-9-1943/ 188th Field Regiment Royal Artillery/ AOIM POW Camp Japan’. He died of malnutrition at Tokyo No. 13 Branch camp (Omi). This camp had been established on the 12 May 1943 as Tokyo No.9 Branch Camp in the site of Electro-chemical Industry Company at Niigata-ken, Nishikubiki-gun, Omi-machi, Japan. The POWs were used by Electro-chemical Industry Company. On 1 August 1943 it was renamed Tokyo No. 7 Dispatched Camp and renamed again in August 1945 Tokyo No. 13 Branch Camp and it closed September 1945 at the end of the war. 542 POWs (432 American, 109 British and 1 New Zealander) were imprisoned at the end of the war and 60 POWs died while imprisoned.
CREW, WILLIAM CHARLES, Lance Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910692], when he died aged 27 on 28/04/1942. He was born in 1915 in the St Olave, London Registration District and was the son of Henry Thomas Daniel and Emily Daisy Crew [Nee Chalk]; husband of Vera Mary Crew, of Rotherhithe. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 7. C. 15.
CREWE, GEORGE HAYDN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 3960229], when he died aged 26 on 12/10/1942. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 13. E. 1. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
CROCKER, HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1087631], when he died aged 30 on 16/06/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. A. 25. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
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CROFTS, PETER HENRY FRANCIS, Captain, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 92517], when he died aged 26 on 05/07/1943. He was born in 1917 in the Croydon Registration District and was the son of Stanley William Francis and Mary Kathleen Crofts [Nee MacCabe], of Harrow, Middlesex. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. L. 53. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
CROXFORD, JOHN DENNIS, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 950247], when he died aged 24 on 27/06/1943. He was born in 1910 in the Bethnal Green Registration District and was the son of John and Caroline Jane Croxford, of Kentish Town. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. F. 55. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
CULPIN, WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1098140], when he died aged 24 on 16/06/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Bolton Registration District and was the son of Timothy William and Betty Seddon Culpin [Nee Griffin]; husband of Alice Mortimer Culpin, of Little Hulton, Lancashire. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. A. 27. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
CURD, MAURICE FREDERICK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1558367], when he died aged 32 on 28/07/1943. He was born in 1911 in the West Ham Registration District and was the son of Frederic John and Florence Eliza T Curd [Nee Drake], of Forest Gate, Essex. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. B. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
CURRIE, HARRY, Lance Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 816987], when he died aged 33 on 21/07/1943. He is the son of John and Mary Ann Currie; husband of Gladys Currie, of Wealdstone, Middlesex. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. A. 39. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
DADD, GEORGE HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1106350], when he died aged 31 on 05/07/1943. He was born in 1911 in the Dartford Registration District and was the son of William Thomas and Ada Jane M Dadd [Nee Saddington][c. 1875 – 1930]. He is the Husband of Rose Ruby Dadd, of Camberwell. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. C. 73. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
DAVEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908523], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1920 in the Camberwell Registration District and was the son of Frederick Albert and Gladys Dorothy Davey. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 16. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
DENNY, GEORGE EDMUND, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964210], when he died aged 26 on 28/05/1943. He was born in 1917 in the St Olave, London Registration District and was the son of Walter Ambrose Denny and Anne Denny [Nee Langwith], of Bermondsey; husband of Phoebe Eileen Denny, of Bermondsey. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. H. 8. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
DE WHALLEY, GEOFFREY RICHARD, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 896984], when he died aged 24 on 05/07/1945. He was born in 1921 in the Lambeth Registration District and he was the son of Hermes George L and Ethel De Whalley [Nee Davies]. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. E. 38. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
DIBLEY, MERVYN EDWARD, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 904863], when he died aged 25 on 02/10/1945. He was born in 1920 in the Lambeth Registration District and was the son of George Edward Dibley, and of Stella Winifred Agnes Dibley [Nee Dyer], of Bexley Heath, Kent. He is buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery, I. H. 3. The remains of those who died as prisoners in Formosa (now Taiwan) were brought to Hong Kong for burial at the Sai Wan War Cemetery in 1946. He had been held on Taiwan at Taichu Camp, Heito Camp and Taihoku Camp No 6 before being transferred to Oka Camp, where he died. See regimental history for more details.
DICKINS, PETER HAMBLETON, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 915378], when he died aged 24 on 06/07/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Chesterfield Registration District and was the son of Arthur Tew Dickins and Edith Man Dickins, of Bexley, Kent. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 4. J. 2. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
DILLEY, HARRY ELLISS, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964193], when he died aged 25 on 07/12/1943. He was born in 1918 in the St Olave Registration District and was the son of Edgar and Lily Dilley [Nee Blackman]. He was the Husband of Vera Charlotte Dilley, of Peckham London. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 3. 0. 13. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
DOBIE, ERNEST, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901321], when he died aged 21 on 14/02/1942. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 9. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
DONNELLY, JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1108626], when he died aged 38 on 12/09/1944. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 17. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
DOWSETT, BERTRAM HARRY, Warrant Officer Class II (B.S.M.), he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 917938], when he died aged 34 on 23/12/1943. He was born in 1909 in Camberwell, London Registration District and was the son of Harry and Annie Dowsett [Nee Coles]; husband of Lavinia Beatrice Maude Dowsett, of Sidcup, Kent. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. C. 30. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
DREWRY, CHARLES STEWART, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1119521], when he died aged 23 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1920 in the Chorlton, Manchester Registration District and was the son of Charles Stewart Drewry and Edith Drewry [Nee Chappell], of Chorlton, Manchester. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 17. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
DRU, GRAHAM ERNEST, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 905171], when he died aged 26 on 14/02/1942. He was born in 1915 in the West Ham Registration District and was the son of Adrian [or Adrien] Ernest B and Daisy Ellen Dru; husband of Margaret Ena Dru (nee Bevan), of Golders Green, Middlesex. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 7. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
DUCE, EDWARD CECIL, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 947829], when he died aged 23 on 01/01/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Ludlow Registration District and was the son of Thomas and Ellen Duce [Nee Jones]. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. A. 32. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
DUDLEY, GEORGE THOMAS HARRY, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 904518], when he died aged 25 on 14/02/1942. He was born in 1916 in the West Ham Registration District and was the son of George Reuben and Fanny Dudley [Nee Jordan]; husband of Lillian Dudley, of Eltham. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 17. B. 1. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
DUGGAN, MICHAEL DESMOND, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902311], when he died aged 23 on 01/09/1943. He is the son of John Gerald and Annie Duggan, of Eltham. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. B. 40. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
EATON, ERIC LAWRENCE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964168], when he died aged 22 on 13/02/1942. He was born in 1919 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Arthur George and Edith Harriet Eaton [Nee Beaumont], of Brockley. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 17. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
EREIRA, GEORGE WALTER, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101512], when he died aged 21 on 04/02/1942. He was born in 1920 in the Bethnal Green Registration District and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Alfred Ereira, of Bethnal Green. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 23. B. 9. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
EVANS, ARTHUR JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 969166], when he died aged 23 on 03/02/1942. He is the son of Joseph and Mary Evans; husband of Molly Walker Evans, of Barnacre, Lancashire. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 23. B. 8. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
EVANS, HENRY JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 904537], when he died aged 23 on between 10/02/1944 and 10/03/1944. He was born in 1919 in the Greenwich Registration District and was the son of Arthur and Violet Annie F Evans [Nee Eldred]; husband of Violet Ruth Evans, of Brockley. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. D. 48. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
EWIN, JOHN ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 900327], when he died aged 26 on 27/10/1944. He was born in 1918 in the Bromsgrove Registration District and was the son of Arthur Burgoyne and Kathleen Ewin [Nee Wadman or Wadams], of Blackheath. Note: POW Camp Commanding Officer’s war dairy gives next of kin address as 9, Wemyss Road. He is buried at Yokohama War Cemetery, Brit. Sec. P. B. 4. He died of colitis and possibly bronchitis at Fukuoka No.25 Branch Camp (Omuta-Denka). This camp had been established on the 29 September 1944 at Fukuoka-ken, Omuta-shi, Shinkai-machi, Japan. The POWs were used by Electro-chemical Industry Company (carbide manufacturing plant). 390 POWs (388 British and 2 American) were imprisoned at the end of the war of these 4 POWs died while imprisoned. It was closed in September 1945 at the end of the war.
FERGUSON, MALCOLM JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 906771], when he died aged 21 on 22/05/1943. He was born in 1921 in The Bromley, Kent Registration District and was the son of Frank Fussell Ferguson and Gladys Josephine Ferguson [Nee Etherington], of Eltham. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 12. A. 10. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
FOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1116228], when he died aged 21 on 04/11/1942. He was born in 1921 in the Dudley Registration District and was the son of Henry Ernest and Elizabeth Foley [Nee Hartshorn], of Stourbridge, Worcestershire. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. E. 65. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
FORSYTH, SIDNEY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 13100075], when he died aged 39 on 22/04/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. C. 71. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
FOSKETT, ALFRED WILSON, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902313], when he died aged 23 on 12/07/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Arthur Bartholomew Foskett and Louisa Mary Foskett [Nee Jacob], of Bellingham. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 5. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
FOSTER, DANIEL EDMUND, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 990319], when he died aged 29 on 18/02/1944. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. E. 37. He died after the main period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
FRANCIS, ERNEST THOMAS, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 915013], when he died aged 24 on 19/05/1945. Awards: Mentioned in Despatches. He was born in 1921 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Ernest Frederick Francis, and of Margaret Francis [Nee Cantwell], of Lee. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. G. 70. He died after the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
FREEMAN, ARTHUR GEORGE, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910577], when he died aged 23 on 16/10/1943. He was born in 1920 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of George Edward and Dorothea Marjory Freeman [Nee Wilkinson]; husband of Vera Gladys Freeman, of St. Paul's Cray, Kent. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 9. B. 3. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
GARDNER, GERALD CHARLES, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 900325], when he died aged 23 on 02/12/1943. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 6. F. 5. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
GARDNER, JOHN WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1123013], when he died aged 32 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of James and Catherine Gardner; husband of Winifred Anne Gardner. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 18. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
GARDNER, TREVOR THOMAS, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1089352], when he died aged 32 on 23/10/1943. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 6. P.7. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
GARTON, CHARLES MAURICE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908484], when he died aged 21 on between 01/08/1942 and 31/08/1942. He was born in 1921 in the Birkenhead Registration District and was the son of Charles Henry and Jessie M. G. Garton [Nee Pearson], of Formby, Liverpool. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 10. A. 12. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
GATES, RONALD M., Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 990323], when he died aged 23 on 21/06/1943. He was born in 1920 in Edmonton and was the son of Charles Ronald [Roland?] and Charlotte Gates [Nee Byrne], of Edmonton, Middlesex. He is buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery, VII. F. 13. The remains of those who died as prisoners in Formosa (now Taiwan) were brought to Hong Kong for burial at the Sai Wan War Cemetery in 1946. He died at the Taichu Camp on Taiwan See regimental history for more details.
GAUNT, ALBERT CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1119411], when he died aged 35 on 26/10/1943. He is the son of John and Mary Gaunt, of Adlington, Lancashire. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 6. N. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
GILBEY, BERNARD VICTOR, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 837699], when he died aged 27 on 13/06/1943. He was born in 1916 in Lewisham and was the son of George Henry and Grace Gilbey [Nee Humphries]; husband of Sylvia Rosetta Gilbey, of Lewisham. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. A. 38. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
GOSLING, ERNEST SIDNEY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909327], when he died aged 27 on 05/11/1943. He was born in 1916 in Catford and was the son of Sidney and Jessie Amelia Gosling, of Catford. His brother Norman Arthur also died 14/06/1943 and is also buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. H. 41. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
GOSLING, NORMAN ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908742], when he died aged 25 on 14/06/1943. He was born in 1918 in Catford and was the son of Sidney and Jessie Amelia Gosling, of Catford. His brother Ernest Sidney also died 05/11/1943 and is also buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. F. 53. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
GRANGE, WILLIAM JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910644], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1919 in Deptford and was the son of Robert and Norah Grange [Nee Pembroke], of Deptford. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 19. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
GRAY, EDMOND GEORGE, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 914065], when he died aged 23 on 22/04/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. F. 36. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
GREENAWAY, STANLEY FREDERICK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 946154], when he died aged 23 on between 01/01/1943 and 31/01/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Camberwell Registration District and was the son of Frederick William and Edith Clara Greenaway [Nee Ward], of Forest Hill. He is buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery, VI. M. 9. The remains of those who died as prisoners in Formosa (now Taiwan) were brought to Hong Kong for burial at the Sai Wan War Cemetery in 1946. The exact date for his death is not known but he died during January 1943 at the Taichu Camp on Taiwan. See regimental history for more details.
GRIMLEY, JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1108629], when he died aged 37 on 12/09/1944. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 19. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
GUNN, WILLIAM ALFRED CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112273], when he died aged 34 on 24/08/1943. He was born in 1909 in the Lambeth Registration District and was the son of William Percy and Ann Jane Gunn; husband of Dorothy Gunn, of Stockwell. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. V. 12. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
HARPER, HARRY WILLIAM GEORGE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909318], when he died aged 23 on 21/01/1944. He was born in 1920 in the Camberwell, London Registration District and was the son of Harry and Amy Maud Harper [Nee Eldridge], of Peckham Rye. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. D. 51. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HAGGAR, CHARLES ROY, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 941899], when he died aged 24 on 22/12/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Steyning Registration District and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 3. K. 11. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
HAILWOOD, JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1123015], when he died aged 29 on 09/04/1945. He was born in 1915 in Leigh and was the son of John William and Henrietta or Hetty Hailwood [Nee Faulkner], of Leigh, Lancashire; husband of Louisa Hailwood, of Leigh. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 33. B. 5. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
HALLIWELL, RALPH, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 907125], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He was born in1920 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Sidney James Halliwell and Maria Helen Halliwell, of New Eltham. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 19. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
HAMLYN, HENRY HARRY, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 757963], when he died aged 37 on 17/08/1943. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamlyn; husband of Alice Diana Hamlyn, of New Cross. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 5. O. 2. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
HANNEY, HENRY WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 914836], when he died aged 26 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1918 in Greenwich Registration District and was the son of Thomas Richard and Florence Hanney [Nee Beadle], of Catford. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
HANSON, JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 946170], when he died aged 26 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of Martin and Catherine Hanson. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 20. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
HARPER, DERRICK GEORGE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 911880], when he died aged 23 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1921 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of George and Ethel M. Harper [Nee Stockhansen], of Mottingham, Kent., He is remembered at Singapore Memorial Column 20. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
HARRISON, WILLIAM WALTER, Captain, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 103603] he died 29/08/1943. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 13. C. 16. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
HART, ROBERT CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909979], when he died aged 21 on 30/11/1942. He was born in 1921 in the Greenwich Registration District and was the son of William Henry and Jessie Hart [Nee Mead], of Catford. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. J. 39. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HARWOOD, WILLIAM JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909331], when he died aged 22 on 13/02/1943. He was born in 1920 in the St Olave, London Registration District and was the son of William James Harwood and Daisy Mary Ann Harwood [Nee Donavan], of Lewisham London. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. C. 40. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HATCHER, JOHN ARTHUR, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 896035], when he died aged 28 on 21/07/1943. He was born in 1914 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Albert James and Lillian Anne Hatcher [Nee Jones]. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 31. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HAWKE, EDWARD RAWLINGS, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112384], when he died aged 26 on 28/05/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. D. 17. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HAYWOOD, CHARLES WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 904862], when he died aged 27 on 06/11/1944. He was born in 1917 in the Greenwich Registration District and was the son of Harry and Gertrude Emily Haywood [Nee Thirkettle], of New Cross. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. Q. 21. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HAZEL, RICHARD ROLAND WILLIAM, Lieutenant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 166631] when he died 30/01/1943. He was born in 1917 in the Wolverhampton Registration District and was the son of Albert William and Marion Sophia Hazel [Nee Warner]. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. J. 63. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HEAL, ERIC FRANK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909319], when he died aged 25 on 09/09/1943. He is the son of Frank Eli and Lillian Caroline Heal, of Catford. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 5. C. 6. His brother, Brian Heal, died 02/12/1943 and is also buried in Chungkai War Cemetery. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
HEAL, BRIAN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908659], when he died aged 23 on 02/12/1943. He is the son of Frank Eli and Lillian Caroline Heal, of Catford. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 6. F. 3. His brother, Eric Frank Heal, died 09/09/1943 and is also buried in Chungkai War Cemetery. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
HEATH, FREDERICK HENRY JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 945395], when he died aged 24 on 21/04/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Horsham Registration District and was the son of Frederick Heath, and of Harriett Annie Heath [Nee Richardson], of Crawley, Sussex. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. F. 31. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HEYWOOD, DAVID, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1108338], when he died aged 36 on 25/07/1945. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. F. 22. He died after the main period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HEYWOOD, SAMUEL, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1119413], when he died aged 32 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1911 bin the Rochdale Registration District and was the son of Samuel and Edna Heywood [Nee Bancroft]; husband of Maggie Heywood, of Rochdale, Lancashire. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 20. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
HILL, ARTHUR ERNEST, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1113315], when he died aged 26 on 18/06/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. H. 8. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HILL, WILLIAM ALFRED, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908621], when he died aged 22 on 21/07/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. L. 69. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HILLIARD, LENARD GEORGE, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964477], when he died aged 25 on 06/08/1943. He was born in 1917 in the Sheppey Registration District and was the son of Alfred Henry and Minnie Louisa Hilliard [Nee Wigg], of Rushenden, Queenborough, Kent. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 50. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HOBBIS, CHARLES VICTOR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 947558], when he died aged 24 on 24/07/1942. He was born in 1918 in the Lewes Registration District and was the son of Harold Victor Hobbis, and of Katherine Hobbis (nee Hodges); husband of Betty Hobbis, of Westerham, Kent. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 9. E. 13. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
HOGG, GRAEME SCOT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1113467], when he died aged 23 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of George S. and Helena C. Hogg, of Carnoustie, Angus. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 21. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
HORLOCK, KENNETH AUDSLEY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 913381], when he died aged 23 on 25/06/1943. He was born in 1920 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Alfred William and Annie Eliza Horlock [Nee Applegate], of Sydenham. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. H. 20. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HOWITT, WILFRED, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 911268], when he died aged 22 on 21/06/1942. He is the son of Edward J. Howitt and Mary T. Howitt, of Wallasey, Cheshire. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 9. C. 18. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
HUDSON, DUDLEY PARKER, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964418], when he died aged 23 on 25/06/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Hull Registration District and was the son of Hamilton Moye Hudson, and of Rachel Isobel Hudson [Nee Parker], of Widford, Hertfordshire. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 4. N. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
HUGHES, WILLIAM STANLEY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1109185], when he died aged 31 on 13/07/1943. He is the son of Frank and Ethel Hughes; husband of Margery Georgina Hughes (nee Caton), of South Harrow, Middlesex. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HULL, JACOB ELLIOT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1106365], when he died aged 32 on 23/10/1943. He was born in 1911 in the Auckland, County Durham Registration District and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hull; husband of Gladys Hull, of Clapham. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. C. 41. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HUNWICK, THOMAS EDWARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901332], when he died aged 34 on 08/01/1945. He is the son of Mrs. E. M. Hunwick, and stepson of Mr. E. E. Fisher, of New Cross. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. K. 41. He died after the main period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
HUTTON, ALBERT HENRY, Lance Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910591], when he died aged 34 on 30/06/1943. He was born in 1908 in the Greenwich Registration District and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hutton, of Lewisham; husband of Rosina Elizabeth Arm Hutton, of Lewisham. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. H. 23. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
IRWIN, ARTHUR LESLIE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1123139], when he died aged 23 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1920 in the Salford Registration District and was the son of Samuel Irwin, M.C., and of Mabel Irwin [Nee Fraser], of Ainsdale, Southport, Lancashire. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 21. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
IVISON, WILLIAM GEORGE, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 904861], when he died aged 33 on 17/08/1943. He was born in 1912 in the Greenwich Registration District and was the son of William George and Florence Victoria Ivison [Nee Ramsey], of Lee. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 5. O. 8. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
JAMES, ERNEST ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1558431], when he died aged 32 on 17/01/1944. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 1. E. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
JASPER, JAMES DOUGLAS, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909973], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1920 in the Camberwell, London Registration District and was the son of James Edward and Daisy Jasper [Nee Brown], of Brockley. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 22. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
JEFFRIES, SIDNEY ALBERT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902295], when he died aged 23 on 22/12/1943. He is the son of Frank J. Jeffries, and of Emily L. Jeffries, of Downham, Kent. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 3. K. 9. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
JEPPESEN, JOHN NIELS PETER, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101518], when he died aged 36 on 05/10/1943. He was born in 1907 in the West Ham Registration District and was the son of A.G Niels Jeppesen and Louisa Jeppesen, of Leytonstone, Essex. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 1. H. 9. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
JOHN, THOMAS WILLIAM SAINT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1089358], when he died aged 33 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1910 in Carmarthen, Wales Registration District. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 22. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
JOHNSON, DENNIS HOWARD, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908615], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Johnson; husband of E.S. Johnson, of Penge, Kent. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 5. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
JOHNSON, LEONARD SAMUEL, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 899322], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of Samuel and Adelaide Johnson, of Eight Ash Green, Essex. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 8. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
JONES, ALUN PIERCE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909510], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1918 in the Llanelly, Wales Registration District and was the son of Owen and Maggie Jones [Nee Jones], of Holyhead, Anglesey. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 22. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
JONES, DOUGLAS CARTWRIGHT, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901345], when he died aged 24 on 13/02/1942. He was born in 1919 in the Greenwich Registration District and was the son of Sidney Walter and Alice Cartwright Jones [Nee Brombroffe], of Lewisham. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, Sp. Mem. 21. E. 15. This reference to a `Sp Mem.’ is different from the Singapore Memorial, which stands in the same cemetery. Another memorial in this cemetery is the Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial, which stands at the eastern end of the Singapore Memorial. As he died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese it is possibly the memorial that this reference refers to. During the last hours of the Battle of Singapore a huge number of wounded civilians and servicemen taken prisoner by the Japanese were brought to the hospital. The number that died was so large that burial in the normal manner was impossible. An emergency water tank, which had been dug before the war in the grounds of the hospital was used as a grave for more than 400 civilians and Commonwealth servicemen. After the war, it was decided that as individual identification of the dead would be impossible, the grave should be left undisturbed. The grave was suitably enclosed, consecrated by the Bishop of Singapore, and a cross in memory of all of those buried there was erected over it by the military authorities. See regimental history for more details.
JUNEMAN, HENRY JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101520], when he died aged 33 on 14/07/1943. He was born in 1909 in the Medway Registration District and was the son of Henry Joseph J and Jane Junemann [Nee Mills]. Jane had died in 1919 and Henry Joseph J had remarried Florence C Dupree in 1919. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 28. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details. Note Surname can be spelt JUNEMANN, but only one N used on memorial.
KEEN, LEONARD ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910109], when he died aged 22 on 04/08/1943. He was born in 1920 in the St Olave, London Registration District and was the son of Richard and Mary Ann Keen [Nee Davy]. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 42. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
KELF, THOMAS JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 911258], when he died aged 23 on 03/10/1943. He was born in 1920 in the Pancras, London Registration District. He is buried at Yokohama War Cemetery, Brit. Sec. E. B. 12. He died of malnutrition at Tokyo No. 13 Branch camp (Omi). This camp had been established on the 12 May 1943 as Tokyo No.9 Branch Camp in the site of Electro-chemical Industry Company at Niigata-ken, Nishikubiki-gun, Omi-machi, Japan. The POWs were used by Electro-chemical Industry Company. On 1 August 1943 it was renamed Tokyo No. 7 Dispatched Camp and renamed again in August 1945 Tokyo No. 13 Branch Camp and it closed September 1945 at the end of the war. 542 POWs (432 American, 109 British and 1 New Zealander) were imprisoned at the end of the war and 60 POWs died while imprisoned.
KEWELL, EDWIN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 911887], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1919 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Arthur G and Agnes Kewell [Nee Mudford], of Bromley, Kent. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 22. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident. His brother Reginald also died as a POW on 7 December 1943 and he is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery.
KEWELL, REGINALD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 911883], when he died aged 26 on 07/12/1943. He was born in 1918 in the Greenwich Registration District and was the son of Arthur G and Agnes Kewell [Nee Mudford], of Bromley, Kent. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 3. O. 14. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details. His brother Edwin also died as a POW on 12 September 1944 and is remembered at the Singapore Memorial, for those with no known grave.
KIMBER, GEORGE ROBERT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 990341], when he died aged 28 on 12/10/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. L. 18. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
KING, WILLIAM FREDERICK, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908565], when he died aged 27 on 07/06/1943. He was born in 1916 in the Bromley, Kent Registration District and was the son of George Irons King and Rose Emily King [Nee Grout], of Beckenham, Kent. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. Q. 5. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
KNOTT, RICHARD ALBERT JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 912994], when he died aged 29 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1915 in the Greenwich Registration District and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick John Knott [Nee Nash]; husband of Kathleen Poppy Knott, of Polegate, Sussex. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 23. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
LABROCK, JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909707], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 23. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
LARBEY, ERNEST ALFRED, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112181], when he died aged 32 on 14/02/1942. He was born in 1909 in the Fulham, London Registration District and was the son of Ernest and Lillian Larbey; husband of Annie Sarah Larbey, of Goodmayes, Essex. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 23. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
LEWIS, DANIEL OWEN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 786368], when he died aged 30 on 11/10/1939. He was born in 1909 in the Pontypridd, Wales Registration District and was the son of Lewis and Kate Lewis; husband of Violet Maud Lewis, of Miskin, Mountain Ash, Wales. He is buried at Mountain Ash (Maesyrarian) Cemetery, Grave 6122. He died in the UK prior to the regiment leaving for overseas and is buried in his home town.
LIDDLE, JOHN GEORGE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1108341], when he died aged 37 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1907 in Gateshead, County Durham Registration District and was the son of William and Ann Liddle; husband of Esma Liddle [Nee Price, who he married in 1927], of Darlington, Co. Durham. He was a father of at least 3 children [a 4th had died in infancy] when he died. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 23. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
LITSTER, JOHN HILL, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101524], when he died aged 22 on 30/05/1943. He is the son of John Shield Litster and Alice Edith Litster. of Battersea. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B4. L. 2. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
LITTLE, JAMES HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901305], when he died aged 24 on 20/03/1944. He was born in 1919 in the Greenwich Registration District and was a twin son of Ernest Edward and Alice Little [Nee Cooper], of Greenwich. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. E. 21. He died after the main period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
LORD, HAROLD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1084001], when he died aged 39 on 07/10/1945. He is remembered at Brookwood Memorial, Panel 3. Column 2. The Brookwood Memorial is to those who died in WW2 and have no known grave.
LOUCH, ERNEST WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1089452], when he died aged 34 on 14/02/1942. He was born in 1908 in the Leicester Registration District and was the son of Mark and Sarah Ann Louch, of Leicester; husband of Elsie May Louch [Nee Wakelin], of Leicester. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 23. C. 18. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
MANDRY, DENNIS GEORGE WILLIAM, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 907146], when he died aged 28 on 12/09/1944. He was awarded the Military Medal [MM] posthumously 13 December 1945 for service in Malaya. He was born Denis G W in 1915 in the Camberwell, London Registration District and was the son of Archibald George and Ethel Birdie Mandry [Nee Stagg]; husband of Phyllis Laura Helena Mandry, of South Lambeth. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 10. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
MANN, WILLIAM CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1084839], when he died aged 21 between 03/02/1942 and 07/02/1942. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, Sp. Mem. 23. B. 7. This reference to a `Sp Mem.’ is different from the Singapore Memorial, which stands in the same cemetery. Another memorial in this cemetery is the Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial, which stands at the eastern end of the Singapore Memorial. As he died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese it is possibly the memorial that this reference refers to. During the last hours of the Battle of Singapore a huge number of wounded civilians and servicemen taken prisoner by the Japanese were brought to the hospital. The number that died was so large that burial in the normal manner was impossible. An emergency water tank, which had been dug before the war in the grounds of the hospital was used as a grave for more than 400 civilians and Commonwealth servicemen. After the war, it was decided that as individual identification of the dead would be impossible, the grave should be left undisturbed. The grave was suitably enclosed, consecrated by the Bishop of Singapore, and a cross in memory of all of those buried there was erected over it by the military authorities. See regimental history for more details.
MANSFIELD, GEORGE JAMES HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902247], when he died aged 23 on 27/08/1943. He was born in 1920 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of George John and Florence or Florrie Mansfield [Nee Fairey], of Forest Hill. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B4. E. 11. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
MARTIN, ARTHUR DENIS, Major, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 50007], when he died aged 34 on 14/02/1942. He is the son of Arthur James Martin and Jane Elizabeth Martin; husband of Heather Cunliffe Martin, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Married Heather Cunliffe Walker 1940 [she remarried Vyvyan Guy Pedrick in 1949]. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 14. D. 14. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details. [Note Captain & initials DB on memorial but name and rank as given by the CWGC is Arthur Denis and his rank is Major]
MARTIN, FRANCIS BERNARD, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908525], when he died aged 21 on 23/07/1942. He was born in 1921 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Stanley Hubert and Nellie Davidson Martin [Nee Francis], of Waddon, Surrey. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 9. E. 12. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
MARTIN, LESTER DUDLEY, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908744], when he died aged 22 on 17/07/1943. He was born in 1921 in the Lewisham Registration District. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 19. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
MASON, ARTHUR RUSHWORTH, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 990354], when he died aged 29 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Mason, of Walworth. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 25. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
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MATTHEWS, JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1094257], when he died aged 32 on 11/06/1943. He is the son of Frank and Lydia Matthews, of East Garston, Berkshire; husband of Winifred Mary Matthews, of East Garston. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. A. 59. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
MAY, STEPHEN ALFRED, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1089360], when he died aged 34 on 28/08/1945. He is buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery, V. N. 5. The remains of those who died as prisoners in Formosa (now Taiwan) were brought to Hong Kong for burial at the Sai Wan War Cemetery in 1946. He had been held on Taiwan at Taichu, Heito Camps before being transferred to Taihoku Camp No 6, where he died. See regimental history for more details.
McCARTHY, EDWARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 914693], when he died aged 23 on 16/05/1943. He is the son of Edward and Sarah Jane McCarthy, of Sidcup, Kent. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 9. N. 5. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
MEAD, ROBERT EDWARD, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 912991], when he died aged 22 on 20/09/1943. He was born in 1921 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Albert and Helena Mead (Nee Bozzett or Bezzett) of Lewisham. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 1. N. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
MEADOWS, ERNEST GEORGE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910649], when he died aged 23 on 06/09/1942. He was born in 1919 in Woolwich Registration District and was the son of Percy Albert [or Albert Percy] and Daisy Florence Meadows [Nee Bull], of Charlton. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 10. B. 20. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
MEGGS, FRANK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908634], when he died aged 24 on 22/06/1943. He was born in 1919 in Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Alfred Charles and Lillian Kate Meggs [Nee Dutnall or Dutnell], of Lewisham. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. G. 3. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
MIDWINTER, HAROLD ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 915393], when he died aged 26 on 10/02/1942. He was born in 1915 in the Abingdon Registration District and was the son of Harold Frank and Marian Alice Midwinter [Nee Thatcher]. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 25. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
MILLER, RICHARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1607268], when he died aged 32 on 12/09/1944. He was born 1912 in Bury Registration District and was the son of Edward and J. Ellen Miller, of Bury, Lancashire. B.A., (Manchester). He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 25. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
MITCHELL, GEORGE HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1115673], when he died aged 26 on 12/09/1944. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 25. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
MITCHELL, THOMAS JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101527], when he died aged 38 on 09/04/1945. He was born in 1906 in the West Ham Registration District and was the son of Thomas Francis and Maud Caroline Mitchell [Nee Clayton], of Stratford, Essex; husband of Florence Ethel Mitchell, of Stratford. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 26. D. 8. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
MORAN, WILLIAM JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101528], when he died aged 36 on 30/09/1943. He was born in 1907 in Edmonton Registration District and was the son of William John and Jessie Ann Moran [Nee Dunbar], of Enfield, Middlesex; husband Of Hilda Moran, of Bush Hill Park, Enfield. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. D. 66. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
MORLEY, ERIC, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1557750], when he died aged 24 on 22/06/1943. He was born in 1920 in the Chesterton Registration District and was the son of Eric and Bessie Morley [Nee Huggins or Hughes], of Cambridge. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. L. 24. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
MURRELL, KEITH EDWARD, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 907815], when he died aged 22 on 22/05/1943. He was born in 1920 in the Fulham, London Registration District and was the son of Edward Reginald and Constance Ada Annie Murrell [Nee Heath] of Lee. His brother, Laurence Victor, also died on service. [His Brother Laurence Victor was a Lancaster Bomber pilot lost 2 December 1943 buried in Berlin]. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 5. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
NASH, WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 946088], when he died aged 26 on 21/05/1945. He is the son of Albert and Louisa Nash, of Rotherhithe. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. G. 61. He died after the main period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
NEILL, CHARLES HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101530], when he died aged 34 on 20/01/1944. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 2. E. 2. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
NELLER, ARTHUR ALFRED, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902299], when he died aged 24 on 26/11/1943. He was born in 1919 in the St Olave, London Registration District and was the son of Herbert William and Alice Maud Neller [Nee Barley], of Brockley. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 10. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
NORRIS, JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1084032], when he died aged 28 on 25/08/1943. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 26. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
NUNN, ALEC, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA Service No: 1119532], when he died aged 31 on 14/06/1943. He was born in 1912 in Hayfield Registration District and was the son of Ernest George and Sarah Elizabeth Nunn [Nee Harris], of Chinley, Cheshire. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 7. C. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
OCKENDEN, ERIC WILLIAM, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 945400], when he died aged 24 on 23/08/1943. He was born in the Thakeham, Sussex Registration District and was the son of William and Elizabeth Ockenden [Nee Barlett], of Findon, Sussex. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. P.74. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
OUZMAN, DONALD HERBERT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964202], when he died aged 27 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1917 in the Dartford, Kent Registration District and was the son of William Richard and Edith Agnes Ouzman [Nee Reeve]; husband of Diana Joan Ouzman, of Preston, Paignton, Devon. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 27. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
OVENDEN, JOSEPH, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902283], when he died aged 27 on 16/06/1945. He was born in 1918 in the St Olave, London Registration District and was the son of John H. Ovenden and Rose Alice Ovenden [Nee Bladon], of Chislehurst. Kent. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 25. B. 14. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
OWERS, ALFRED ROBERT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1089363], when he died aged 33 on 11/11/1943. He was born in 1911 in the Hackney Registration District and was the son of Alfred Ernest Owers and of Sarah Owers (nee Wright), of Islington; husband of Kathleen Owers. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B4. S. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
PARHAM, LESLIE HAROLD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 990363], when he died aged 31 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1913 in the Hackney, London Registration District and was the son of Leonard Stanley Parham and Amy Parham [Nee Woolf], of Dagenham, Essex. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 27. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
PATERSON, WILLIAM LEONARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1115158], when he died aged 22 on 22/10/1943. He is the son of Alexander Paterson, and of Mary Elizabeth Paterson, of Meltham, Yorkshire. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. C. 11. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
PAWLEY, EDWARD WILFRED, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909320], when he died aged 22 on 07/09/1943. He was born in 1920 in the St George Hanover Square, London Registration District and was the son of William Hele or Hail and Margaret Cecilia Pawley [Nee de Casagrande]. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. B. 48. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
PEARCE, ERNEST GEORGE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101531], when he died aged 32 on 30/08/1943. He is the son of William Harry and Jessie Pearce, of Willesden, Middlesex. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 5. G. 5. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
PETHYBRIDGE, ALAN BRADSHAW, Warrant Officer Class II (B.S.M.), he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909539], when he died aged 29 on 10/02/1942. He was born in 1913 in the Greenwich Registration District and was the son of Walter Bradshaw Pethybridge and Frances Emily Pethybridge [Nee Gummer]; husband of Nellie Florence Rosa Pethybridge, of Mottingham, Kent. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 17. B. 3. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
PHILLIPS, ROBERT JOHN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 955386], when he died aged 25 on 15/10/1943. He is the son of John and Ada Phillips; husband of Margaret Phillips, of Wandsworth. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. C. 27. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
PICKERING, FREDERICK WALTER, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 947562], when he died aged 33 on 07/06/1943. He is the son of Walter and Mary Frances Pickering, of St. Johns, Sevenoaks, Kent. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. Q. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
PILBEAM, DOUGLAS HARRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 941890], when he died aged 23 on 10/02/1942. He is the son of Henry W. and Florence Pilbeam, of Ottershaw, Surrey. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 28. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
PINCOMBE, THOMAS CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 990368], when he died aged 29 on 14/09/1944. He was born in 1915 in the Paddington, London Registration District and was the son of John Henry and Lucy Pincombe [Nee Welsh or Welch], of Willesden, Middlesex. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 28. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
PROCTER, JAMES ROBERT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1606950], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of S. and Ada Procter, of Blackburn, Lancashire. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 28. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
PURDOM, RICHARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1108347], when he died aged 33 on 13/02/1942. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 28. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
PLUMMER, RONALD PATRICK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101532], when he died aged 24 on 07/09/1944. He was born in 1920 in the Hackney, London Registration District and is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Coll. grave 3. E. 2-20. He died after the main period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
PLUMRIDGE, HENRY CHARLES ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964473], when he died aged 33 [26 according to birth registration, 33 given by CWGC] on 27/08/1943. He was born in 1917 in the Strood, Kent Registration District and was the son of Charles Albert and Clara E J Plumridge [Nee Meen], of Northfleet, Kent; husband of Ada Mary Plumridge, of Northfleet. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. J. 41. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
POOLEY, MAURICE FRED, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 907161], when he died aged 25 on 27/07/1943. He was born in1918 in the Sevenoaks, Kent Registration District and was the twin son of John Peter and Gertrude Ann Pooley [Nee Aldridge or Aldrich], of Lee. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. H. 30. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
RADFORD, EDWARD LESLIE HORACE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902281], when he died aged 24 on 04/02/1942. He was born in 1917 in the Woolwich Registration District and was the son of Horace John Radford, and of Margaret Radford [Nee Walker], of Eltham. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, Sp. Mem. 24. B. 4. This reference to a `Sp Mem., is different from the Singapore Memorial, which stands in the same cemetery. Another memorial in this cemetery is the Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial, which stands at the eastern end of the Singapore Memorial. As he died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese it is possibly the memorial that this reference refers to. During the last hours of the Battle of Singapore a huge number of wounded civilians and servicemen taken prisoner by the Japanese were brought to the hospital. The number that died was so large that burial in the normal manner was impossible. An emergency water tank, which had been dug before the war in the grounds of the hospital was used as a grave for more than 400 civilians and Commonwealth servicemen. After the war, it was decided that as individual identification of the dead would be impossible, the grave should be left undisturbed. The grave was suitably enclosed, consecrated by the Bishop of Singapore, and a cross in memory of all of those buried there was erected over it by the military authorities. See regimental history for more details.
RICHARDS, ALFRED JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1103375], when he died aged 23 on 25/05/1942. He is the son of Alfred Charles and Susannah Elizabeth Richards [Nee Davies], of Wealdstone, Middlesex. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 9. B. 7. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
RIST, EDWARD ARTHUR, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910646], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1920 in the Camberwell Registration District and was the son of William James Rist and Ethel Mary Rist [Nee Cann]. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 10. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
RIXSON, RONALD ALFRED, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909989], when he died aged 23 on 11/06/1943. He was born in 1919 in the Camberwell, London Registration District and was the son of William Ernest and Hilda Lily Rixson [Nee Judge], of Brockley. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. B. 1. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
ROBERTS, ARTHUR CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 945396], when he died aged 23 on 25/01/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. C. 35. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
ROBINS, SIDNEY FRANCIS, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 914205], when he died aged 29 [29 is CWGC age but birth registered in 1920, making him 22 at death] on 09/06/1942. He was born in 1920 in the Lewisham Registration District and was the son of Harry and Jane Robins [Nee Stockbridge], of Eltham. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 9. B. 19. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
ROE, DOUGLAS ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1108708], when he died aged 24 on 08/04/1945. He was born in 1922 in the Derby Registration District and was the son of Arthur and Olive Roe [Nee Allen]; husband of Dorothy Irene Roe, of Beeston, Nottinghamshire. He is buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery, V. H. 3. The remains of those who died as prisoners in Formosa (now Taiwan) were brought to Hong Kong for burial at the Sai Wan War Cemetery in 1946. He died at the Taichu Camp on Taiwan. See regimental history for more details.
ROPER, JOHN HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101534], when he died aged 34 on 29/08/1943. He is the son of Charles William Valentine Roper and Katherine Roper. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B4. W. 5. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
ROWLES, MAURICE CAMERON, Lance Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 946047], when he died aged 25 on 12/09/1944. He was born in 1918 in the Royston Registration District and was the son of George Victor and Rose Emily Rowles [Nee Woodcock], of Catford. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 7. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
RUTHERFORD, HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1108644], when he died aged 37 on 21/11/1943. He is the son of Frank M. and Jessie Rutherford; husband of Annie C. Rutherford, of Ayr. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 29. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
RYAN, JOHN WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 968931], when he died aged 23 on 13/07/1943. He was born in 1920 in the Camberwell Registration District and was the son of John Jeremiah and Elizabeth Cecelia Ryan [Nee Webster], of Bermondsey. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. A. 21. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
RYDER, VICTOR CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1074550], when he died aged 33 on between 12/09/1944 and 13/09/1944. He is the son of George Henry and Louisa Ryder, of Buckland, Portsmouth. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 29. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
SABOURIN, LEONARD CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901311], when he died aged 24 on 14/11/1943. He is the son of Horace and Rosetta Elizabeth Sabourin, of Dagenham, Essex. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 6. F. 15. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
SADLER, WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1115702], when he died aged 41 on 13/05/1943. He is the son of Walter and Lucinda Sadler; husband of Edna Sadler, of Shepley, Huddersfield. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 16. A. 15. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
SALE, JOHN TREVOR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 990000], when he died aged 32 on 14/11/1943. He is the son of Harry and Lillian Sale; husband of Annie Sale, of Northampton. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. D. 3. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
SALMON, RONALD CHARLWOOD, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 914832], when he died aged 33 on 29/11/1942. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 13. C. 8. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
SAMPSON, DENNIS GRENVILLE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909735], when he died aged 22 on 20/09/1943. He is the son of Grenville Owen Sampson, and of Lily Eva Sampson, of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B1. L. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
SAMPSON, ERNEST THOMAS, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964190], when he died aged 25 on 12/09/1944. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 10. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
SEAGER, PERCY LEONARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964449], when he died aged 25 on 22/09/1943. He is the son of William and Phoebe Emma Seager, of Gravesend, Kent. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. B. 76. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
SCOTT, CHARLES SIDNEY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 946055], when he died aged 24 on 05/06/1943. He is the son of James and Maria Louisa Scott. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, 63. K. 3. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
SIGGINS, CHARLES HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908508], when he died aged 27 on 12/08/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 55. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
SIMMONS, LAWRENCE FREDERICK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964177], when he died aged 26 on 04/11/1943. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B6. T. 8. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
SIMPKIN, CHRISTOPHER, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112166], when he died aged 35 on 21/12/1943. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Simpkin; husband of Florence Ellen Simpkin, of Kennington. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 3. K. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
SIMPSON, JAMES HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1525859. He died 12/09/1944. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 30. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
SIMPSON, WILLIAM HARRY ERNEST, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 946004], when he died aged 24 on 16/12/1943. He is the son of William and Rose Emma Simpson. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 3. L. 4. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
SMALE, REGINALD GEORGE, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 944649], when he died aged 25 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of Reginald George and Nora Smale; husband of Vera Florence Smale, of Kentish Town. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 6. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
SMITH, FRANK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1115891. He died 18/03/1943. He is the son of Edward and Emelia Smith; husband of Dorothy Smith. of Doncaster, Yorkshire. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. F. 22. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
SMITH, HARRY, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964467], when he died aged 26 on 30/11/1943. He is the son of Thomas and Ruth Smith, of Malling Cross, Cobham, Kent. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 6. A. 5. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
SMITH, LESLIE THOMAS, Gunner, when he died aged 24 on 13/01/1944, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909342]. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. D. 31. He died after the main period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
SMITH, RONALD ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 913315], when he died aged 29 on 08/07/1943. He is the son of Percy Arthur and Elizabeth Smith; husband of Margaret Ellen Smith, of Old Coulsdon, Surrey. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. A. 19. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
SOWERY, JOHN JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964401], when he died aged 23 on 12/08/1943. He is the son of William and Olive Sowery, of Staplehurst, Kent. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Sp. Mem. 9. M. 9. From his date of death and the location of his memorial he was one of the cholera epidemic victims in Niki or Nieke camp. See regimental history for more details.
SPOONER, CHARLES HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 990286], when he died aged 28 on 01/07/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. B. 5. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
SPURLING, ROBERT WILLIAM EDWARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 915620], when he died aged 21 on 04/06/1942. He is the son of Robert Spurling, and of Elizabeth Gertrude May Spurling, of Eltham. He was a Scoutmaster. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 9. B. 13. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
SPURRELL, VICTOR CHARLES GEORGE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908620], when he died aged 24 on 11/09/1943. He is the son of Charles Edward Frederick Spurrell, and of Alice Spurrell, of Forest Hill. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B1. G. 15. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
STANDBRIDGE, LEONARD ARTHUR, Warrant Officer Class II (B.S.M.), he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 915807], when he died aged 33 on 07/04/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. J. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
STEVENS, KENNETH JAMES CLOETE, Captain, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 102296] he died 04/09/1943. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B1. C. 20. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
STOUT, ERNEST CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 990386], when he died aged 28 on 25/06/1943. He is the son of James and Henrietta Stout; husband of Doris Allenby Stout, of Ashby, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. Q. 1. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
STRAND, THOMAS WILLIAM, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902269], when he died aged 24 on 18/09/1943. He is the son of William Thomas Strand, and of Alice Maud May Strand, of Mottingham. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 6. L. 4. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
SUMPTER, ALBERT EDWARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1106390], when he died aged 32 on 17/08/1943. He is the son of Albert Edward and Sarah Ann Sumpter; husband of Edith Emily Sumpter, of Hornsey, Middlesex. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. G. 60. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
SWIFT, RALPH GEORGE, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 913380], when he died aged 23 on 29/06/1943. He is the son of Ralph Hall Swift and Bertha Emmeline Swift, of Blackheath. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 4. M. 7. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
TAGGART, MATTHEW, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1123025], when he died aged 34 on 17/06/1943. He is the son of Michael and Florence Taggart, of Salford, Lancashire; husband of Margaret (Peggy) Taggart, of Salford. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. B. 8. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
TAYLOR, JAMES PATRICK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [1606954], when he died aged 23 on 09/10/1943. He was the son of Richard and Margaret Mary Taylor, of Bradford, Manchester. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. B. 60. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
TEDDER, FREDERICK WALTER FRANCIS, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1112123], when he died aged 35 on 12/09/1944. He is the Husband of G. M. Tedder, of Mitcham Junction, Surrey. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 32. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
TERRY, ALBERT WILLIAM, Lance Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 910640], when he died aged 24 on 14/02/1942. He is the son of Albert Ernest and Gertrude Terry, of Hayling Island, Hampshire. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 7. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
THOMAS, MATTHEW DAVID, Lieutenant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 124089] when he died 24/07/1943. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. C. 16. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
THOMPSON, VICTOR JOHN, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909987], when he died aged 22 on 23/03/1942. He is the son of John James Thompson and Lily Frances Thompson, of Chislehurst, Kent. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 8. A. 15. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
TICKELL, RICHARD HENRY, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 904538], when he died aged 23 on 15/07/1943. He is the son of Arthur and Lily Clara Tickell, of Harrow, Middlesex. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. H. 24. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
TRENELL, STANLEY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 893690], when he died aged 29 on 07/08/1945. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. E. 77. He died after the main period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
TREVENA, ARTHUR HERBERT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 907148], when he died aged 23 on 04/11/1943. He is the son of Charles Truan Trevena and Rosalind Louise Trevena, of Eltham. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B6. A. 9. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.-
UNDERWOOD, HENRY LEONARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1101539. He died 14/08/1943. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 32. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
VERNON, HENRY WILLIAM, Lance Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 946029], when he died aged 26 on 28/09/1943. He is the son of Henry and Louisa Catherine Vernon, of Catford; husband of Mabel Vernon. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. C. 20. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
VOAK, FREDERICK JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901325], when he died aged 28 on 05/09/1943. He is the son of Frederick John and Grace Augusta Denham Voak, of Honor Oak Park. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. D. 51. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WADE, NORMAN HAROLD ALAN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 836497], when he died aged 25 on 28/11/1943. He is the son of Arthur Charles and Lydia Louise Wade, of Maidstone, Kent. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. D. 43. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WALKER, WILLIAM ROLAND, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 945531], when he died aged 24 on 05/08/1943. He is the son of Thomas and Adeline Walker, of Rotherhithe. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. H. 27. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WALL, ROBERT CHARLES CROFT, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901347], when he died aged 24 on 23/09/1943. He is the son of William Walter and Jessie Christine Wall, of River, Dover. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 2. N. 10. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
WALTER, CYRIL BERTIE ALFRED, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 944950], when he died aged 25 on 21/09/1944. He is the Husband of L. E. Walter, of Lenwade, Norfolk. . He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 33. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. He had been captured by the Japanese 15 February 1942. He died on the Hofuku Maru [Fuku Maru Toyofuku Maru or Fuji Maru] On 4 July 1944 the Hofuku Maru sailed with Convoy MATA-27 from Singapore for Manila, arriving 19 July 1944 with 1287 prisoners. On 20 September 1944 it left Manila bound for Japan with 1289 British and Dutch prisoners. Takao in Formosa On 21 September 1944 it was attacked by an American aircraft carrier about 80 miles north of Corregidor, the aircraft carrier’s planes sunk the whole fleet off Luzon north of Subic Bay including the Hofuku Maru, not knowing it carried prisoners. The Hofuku Maru took only minutes to sink with 1047 of the 1289 prisoners being lost.
WARD, CYRIL JAMES, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 990066], when he died aged 47 on 15/10/1943. He is the son of Edward and. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B6. P20. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
WARDELL, ROBERT HENRY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901320], when he died aged 24 on 31/07/1943. He is the son of Frances Jentian Wardell, and stepson of George Bennet Turner, of Darton, Yorkshire. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. D. 3. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
WATTS, JAMES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1085715], when he died aged 31 on 15/06/1943. He is the son of James and Eliza Winifred Watts; husband of Winifred Beatrice Watts, of Rugby, Warwickshire. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. B. 12. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WEBB, CHARLES GEORGE, Sergeant, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 907833], when he died aged 23 on 28/06/1943. He is the son of Walter Charles and Ellen Webb, of New Cross. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. H. 21. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WEBB, STANLEY RICHARD, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901796], when he died aged 23 on 11/08/1943. He is the son of Arthur and Jane Webb, of Eltham. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. M. 68. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WEIR, THOMAS JOSEPH, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1123155], when he died aged 38 on 05/09/1943. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 4. D. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
WELLS, ROY ALBERT, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 945539], when he died aged 24 on 15/06/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 6. B. 14. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WENNELL, WALTER STANLEY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908737], when he died aged 24 on 15/02/1943. He is the son of James William Awdrer Wennell and Daisy Wennell. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Coll. grave 6. G. 1-67. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WEST, JAMES FREDERICK WILLIAM, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909982], when he died aged 29 on 15/01/1944. He is the son of Frederick and Catherine West, of Peckham; husband of I. K. West, of Peckham. . He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 1. E. 1. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
WHARTON, ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 1119537], when he died aged 39 on 05/12/1942. He is the son of Abraham and Ellen Wharton; husband of Bertha Wharton, of Salford, Lancashire. . He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. F. 2. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WHITING, LESLIE, Lance Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 907860], when he died aged 23 on 11/09/1943. He is the son of William Herbert Whiting and Sarah Whiting (nee Smith); husband of Rita Florence Whiting, of Bromley, Kent. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. B. 49. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WICKERSON, SYDNEY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 909393], when he died aged 26 on 11/06/1943. He is the son of Walter and Lily Wickerson, of New Eltham. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B4. Q. 1. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
WICKS, CYRIL JOSEPH, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964435], when he died aged 27 on 19/09/1943. He is the son of Joseph and Daisy W. Wicks, of Borough Green, Kent. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B1. K. 17. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
WILKINS, CHRISTOPHER ARTHUR, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 901386], when he died aged 26 on 10/05/1943. He is the son of Thomas Wilkins, and of Florence May Wilkins, of Millwall. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. F. 41. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WILKINS, RONALD GORDON, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 945393], when he died aged 24 on 19/05/1943. He is the Husband of Ivy Stewart Wilkins, of East Grinstead. Sussex. . He is remembered at Singapore Memorial , Column 9. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
WILLSHIRE, JOHN RALPH, Warrant Officer Class II (B.S.M.), he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 758495], when he died aged 39 on 11/07/1943. He is the son of William Hexter Willshire and Sarah Jane Willshire; husband of Ethelwyn Emily Willshire, of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 13. C. 18. The Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. At the end of the war the Army Graves Service found that a number of the local camps cemeteries, such as Changi, Buona Vista Camps, Saigon Military Cemetery, Vietnam and Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore were not possible to safely maintain and it was decided to transfer all the burials to an enlarged Kranji War Cemetery, where they could be safely looked after. So any burials at Kranji could have come from these Camps/Cemeteries also. See regimental history for more details.
WILSON, JACK EWSON, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 912993], when he died aged 23 on 14/09/1943. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Wilson, of Gaywood, Norfolk. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 34. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave.
WILLIAMS, FREDERICK, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 945529], when he died aged 24 on 12/08/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 4. A. 76. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
WILLIAMSON, STEPHEN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 945537], when he died aged 24 on 31/08/1943. He is the son of Ada Williamson, of Catford. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B6. E. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
WILSON, VICTOR CHARLES, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 904589], when he died aged 24 on 27/07/1943. He is the son of Jack and Edith Wilson; husband of Violet Elizabeth Wilson, of Baughurst, Hampshire. He is buried at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, B3. F. 4. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered at the main headquarters in Myanmar [Burma] where POWs would work up to the Burma-Siam border. See regimental history for more details.
Winter, Charles Abbassia, Bombardier he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 5826657], when he died aged 25 on 12/09/1944. He was the son of Charles Foyster and Susannah Winter; husband of Dorian Thirza Winter, of Dennington, Suffolk. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 9. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
WORTH, RONALD WILLITT, Bombardier, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 908514], when he died aged 24 on 12/09/1944. He is the son of Henry James and Jane Ann Worth, of Tottenham, Middlesex. He is remembered at Singapore Memorial, Column 9. The Singapore Memorial is to those who died in the area during WW2 and have no known grave. From the date of his death he possibly died when the transport ship from Singapore to Japan was sunk. See regimental history for more details of the incident.
WRIGHT, DOUGLAS ALLEN, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 964196], when he died aged 24 on 15/02/1942. He is the son of William John Thomas Wright and Alice Maud Wright, of Bexley, Kent. He is buried at Kranji War Cemetery, 17. B. 2. He died during the final battle to defend Singapore from the Japanese. Kranji Camp was set up close to the scene of the last battles for Singapore, The Japanese set up a camp here and the Prisoners of War started a small cemetery. See regimental history for more details.
YOUNG, STANLEY, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 891190], when he died aged 25 on 20/09/1943. He is the son of Joseph and Georgina Young. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 2. Q. 6. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
YOUNG, WILLIAM GEORGE, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 902248], when he died aged 22 on between 01/06/1943 and 31/07/1943. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, 8. B. 26. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is remembered near the main Kanburi Camp in Thailand [Siam] where POWs passed through to other camps along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. See regimental history for more details.
YULE, SIDNEY RICHARD, Gunner, he was serving with the 118th Field Artillery RA TA [Service No: 907811], when he died aged 35 on 26/07/1943. He is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, 8. F. 8. He died during the period of the Burma-Siam railway construction and is buried at Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand [Siam]. This was one of the base camps on the railway and the bridge over the river Kwai. It contained a hospital and church built by Allied prisoners of war. See regimental history for more details.
