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5775255
Private
Stanley Douglas Leggett
1920/06/22 - Born Row 74, Great Yarmouth
Factory Worker Great Yarmouth
1939 - Enlisted
Royal Norfolk Regiment
4th Battalion
‘D’ Company
Service
1941/10/28 - Sailed from Liverpool in the Andes with Convoy CT.5 to Halifax
1941/11/08 - Arrived Halifax, transferred to USS Wakefield
1941/11/10 - Sailed in Convoy William Tail 12X
1941/12/13 - Mount Vernon left convoy at Kenya, destination Singapore as the Japanese had invaded Malaya on the 8th December
1941/12/13 - The Convoy without Mount Vernon now became Task Force 14.2
1941/12/27 - Task Force 14.2 reached Bombay
1941/01/19 - Sailed for Singapore
1942/01/29 - Arrived Singapore
1942/01/30 - 18th Division moved to defend North East Island of Singapore
1942/02/10 - 4th Norfolk’s joined ‘Tomforce’ at Bukit Timah
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
1942/10/31 - Overland to Thailand ‘R’ Letter Party, Group 2
Japanese PoW Number 4044
1942/11/07 - New Japanese PoW number 10220
1945/08/15 - Liberated
Died
2009
Georgia, USA
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