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Captain

Askew, Ernest Frederick

 

Date Born:-

1902/07/20

 

Home Town:-

Thetford, Norfolk

 

Parents:-

Henry James and Mary Askew

 

Next of Kin:-

Wife:- The Drill Hall, Renton, Dumbartonshire, Scotland.

 

Occupation:-

Regular Soldier

 

 

 

Service

Enlisted:-

1922/01/09

 

Regiment:-

Royal Artillery

 

Unit:-

69/21 L.A.A. Regimnt

 

Conflict:-

Far East - World War 2

 

Place of Capture:-

Java - 1942/03/09

 

 

 

Japanese Index Card Information

Card Camp:-

Fukuoka PoW camp

 

Card Country:-

Japan

 

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Notes

1942/03 Koan School, Batavia. 1942/05 Priot Gladock Prison. 1942/11 Transported to Japan, , No.1 PoW Camp Kumomoto. 1943/10 Fukuoka 1B. 1945/06 Miado No. 9. Liberated Japan 1945/09/20

 

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Pacific Star

War Medal

1939-1945 Star

 

 

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