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1024473
Aircraftman 1st Class
John McLeod Urie
1907/09/09 - Born Edinburgh
Occupation - Commercial Traveler
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Japanese PoW
1942/03/08 - Captured Java
PoW No. 10336
1943/02/09 - Left Java in Roko Maru, in Java Party 13
1943/02/13 - Arrived Changi, Singapore
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/05/05 - Transported overland to Thailand in ‘H’ Party
Under lt-ol. H.R. Humphries, Royal Artillery, 77 HAA
Comprising of 3,270 PoWs (1,411 British, 670 Australians, 601 Non-Dutch, 588 Dutch)
‘H’ Party were mainly sick who were promised convalescing in the mountains by the Japanese but they were marched over many miles through jungle and put to hard labour, at Hintok.
New PoW No. 10808
Died
Age 35
1943/08/04
Cause of Death Dysentery and Malnutrition
Buries Grave 7, Hintok River Camp, Camp 5/6A Cemetery, Thailand
After the war the bodies were laid to rest in Commonwealth War Grave Cemeteries
Loved Ones
Son of David Urie, and of May Patti Urie (nee Brown); husband of Elsie Urie (nee Paterson), of Newlands, Glasgow
Memorial
7. H. 6.
CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Information
Java Index
KEW:- WO 361/2234, WO 361/2233, WO 361/1948, WO 392/26, WO 361/2009, WO 361/2216
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