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Gunner
Andrew Vere
1911/09/19 - Born Canonbie, Dumfriesshire
Son of John James and Jeanie Vere
Occupation Agriculture Labourer
Royal Artillery
155 (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/10/25 - Transported oversea in England Maru with ‘Z’ Force to Thailand
With 1100 PoWs
Commander Lt-Col. E.W.F. Jephson, RA 5th Field HQ
1943/11/14 - Arrived Keelung, Thailand after three week journey
New PoW No. IV 2007
Andrew and 499 other PoWs taken to Kinkaseki - Camp 1
Worked in Copper Mine
Transferred to Shirakawa - Camp 4A
Died
Age 33
1945/04/14
Cause of Death Malnutrtional Oedema with Ascites
Plus Enteritis with Beriberi
Buried Shirakawa
Loved Ones
Son of Jeanie Grant, of Langholm, Dumfriesshire
Memorial
VI. H. 3.
SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY
‘HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE’
Information
Japanese Transport
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Never Forgotten - Taiwan PoW Camps
KEW:- WO 361/1475, WO 361/1475, WO 361/1216, WO 361/1475/2, WO 361/1582, WO 392/26, WO 345/53, WO 361/1968, WO 361/1623, WO 361/2065, WO 361/2068, WO 361/2188,
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