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T/84405

Driver

Richard William Cloughley

Cloughley-Richard-William

1914/10/08 - Born Glasgow, Scotland

Son of James and Elizabeth Cloughley

1939/05/05 - Enlisted

Royal Army Service Corps

18D

 

1942/02/15 - WO 417/40, Reported Missing

1943/02/01 - WO 417/63, Reported Prisoner of War

WO 417/100, Reported a PoW in Netherland East Indies

 

Japanese PoW

1942/03/06 - Captured Java

Tandjong Priok Camp

PoW No. 2036

Camp under Col. Lane and Col. Holmes

Japanese Index Card - Side One

Cloughley-Richard-William-1

Japanese Index Card - Side Two

Cloughley-Richard-William-2

1943/11/07 - Transported with Java Party 19 in France Maru to Palembang, South-Sumatra

Transported to Pangkalanbalei 60 kilometres from Palambang

Pangkalan Mati Camp (Allied spelling)

New PoW No. 3059

Camp under Col. Holmes, Manchester Regiment

Airfield Construction

1945/05/30 - Transported to Changi Singapore

Under Col, Holmes, Manchester Regiment

1945/09/02 - Liberated

1945/11/02 Released for repatriation

 

Died

Age 66

1981/06/22

Cause of death - Thrombosis (blood clot) following routine surgery

Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow

Information

Tess Deveney

Keith Andrews

KEW:- WO 361/2002, WO 361/1946, WO 361/2058, WO 361/2219, WO 361/1989, WO 345/11, WO 392/23,

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