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2076225
Corporal
Joseph Charles Whiting
1920/01/25 - Born Norwich
Son of James and Ellen Mary (nee Clarke) Whiting
Occupation Clerk
1939/04/27 - Enlisted
Royal Engineers
288th Field Park Company
18th Division
Previous 251st Field Park Company
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
PoW No. M-11408
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Date
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Camp
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Commanders
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1942/02/17
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Changi, Singapore
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General Beckwith-Smith
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Major W.A.J. Spears
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1942/03/18
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River Valley, Singapore
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Colonel Heath
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Lieutenant Glenister
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1942/11/01
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Roberts Hospital, Changi
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1943/03/20
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Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/03/23 - Transported overland to Thailand in ‘D’ Force, train 57
Group 4
New PoW No. IV 109028
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Date
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Camp
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Commanders
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1943/04/01
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Kinsaiyok, Thailand
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Colonel Carpenter
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Major W.A.J Spears
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1943/05/15
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Kan’buru Hospital
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Major Reed
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1943/10
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Chungkai
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Colonel Outram
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Major W.A.J. Spears
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1944/05/01
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Tamuang
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Colonel Knights - RSM Christopher
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Major Sprears - CSM Biggs
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1945/07/01
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Nakom Nayok
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RSM Stimpson
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RSM Mannion
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New PoW No. IV 16931
1945/08/30 - Liberated Thailand
Post War
1946/01/15 - Joseph married Isobel Margaret Banks
At Lady and St Joseph R.C. Church
Kirkwall, Orkney
(Isobel born 1920/10/25, Orkney)
Joseph - Jane - Isobel - Stephen
1952 - Taken at home
Died
1991/03/13
Capel Saint Mary, Ipswich
(Isobel died 1988/06/05 Norwich)
Information
Jane Scarlett
Keith Andrews
Thailand - Burma Railway
KEW:- WO 361/2172, WO 367/3, WO 392/26, WO 345/55, WO 361/1955, WO 361/2196, WO 361/2169, WO 361/2070, WO 361/2065, WO 361/2169, WO 361/2191, WO 361/2070,
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