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Serjeant
Bramwell Herbert Alliston
1910/11/13 - Born Nagercoil, South India
Son of Frederick and Lousia
Occupation Clerk
Next of Kin - Wife, O Alliston, 67 Shaftesbury Road, Brighton, Sussex
Royal Engineers
1942/03/26 - WO 417/40, Casualty List No. 781. Reported ‘Missing’.
Japanese POW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/11/05 - Transported Overland to Thailand
Group 2
Transported from Chungkai back to Singapore
1944/07/04 - Transported oversea in the Hofuku Maru from Singapore to Manila, arriving the 19th July.
The PoWs remained on board while ship was repaired
1944/09/20 - Sailed from Manila to Japan 20th September
Died
Age 33
21st September 1944
When the Hofuku Maru was sunk by planes from the American Aircraft Carrier, 80 miles north of Corregidor.
His brother Bernard also died in action.
Memorial
Column 39.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
1945/09/26 - WO417/97_1, Casualty List No. 1868. Previously reported on Casualty List No. 1523 as Prisoner of War - Malaya. Reported ‘Missing’.
1945/12/07 - WO417/100, Casualty List No. 1930. Previously shown on Casualty List No. 1868 as reported Missing whilst Prisoner of War. ‘Presumed Killed in Action whilst Prisoner of War’.
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Remembered Salvation Army 1939-1945
Information
Mike Alliston - Nephew
Thailand-Burma Railway
Hell Ship
Hofuku Maru
Commonwealth War Grave Commission
KEW Files:- WO 345/1, WO 392/23, WO 361/2167, WO 361/1142, WO 361/2167,
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