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Lance Corporal
William Ainsley
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1931/07/13 - Born
1940/06/24 - Enlisted
5th Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
1942/02/25 - Roberts Hospital Changi (Camp Leader Col. Craven)
1942/11/14 - Transported by train to Tarso Thailand (Camp Leader Lt/Col. Knight)
1943/12/16 - Tonchan, Thailand (Camp Leader Capt. Hans, Aus. Army)
1944/04/16 - Tamuang, Thailand (Camp Leader Lt/Col. Knight)
1945/04/08 - Nakom Nayok, Thailand (Camp Leader RSM Stimpson, 118 RA)
1945/08/15 - liberated from Pratchai
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Sailed home on the transport ship HMS Ormonde.
(In 1946 HMS Ormonde returned to her original name, before being commissioned by the Royal Navy, of HMS Empire Spearhead)
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