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2090385
Sapper
John Angell
Born 1912/04/27 - Liverpool
Son of John Joseph and Mary Ann Angell
Royal Engineers
287 Field Company
53 Infantry Brigade
18th Division
Service
In October 1941, orders were at last received to prepare for foreign service
The 287 Field Company were transported to Liverpool and sailed from Great Britain on the 30th October 1941 with Convoy CT.5. (18th Division) the convoy formed off the Irish Coast.
1941/11/08 - Transferred to USS Mount Vernon with 53 Infantry Brigade
Via Port Spain, Trinidad and Cape Town to Kenya
Above Photo of Convoy William Sail 12X supplied by the late Maurice Rooney
Vought SB 2U Vindicator Scout Bomber - USS Ranger which was flying an Anti Submarine patrol over the convoy.
Front Line Top to Bottom:-
USS West Point - USS Mount Vernon - USS Wakefield - USS Quincy (Heavy Cruiser)
Back Row Top To Bottom:-
USAT Leonard Wood - USS Vincennes (Heavy Cruiser) - USS Joseph T Dickman
(USS Orizaba Ap-24 also sailed with Convoy though not pictured in photo)
1941/11/10 - Sailed from Halifax in Convoy William Sail 12X
1941/12/08 - Japan invades Malaya
1941/12/29 - Mount Vernon left Kenya for Singapore in Convoy DM.1
1942/01/04 - Mount Vernon anchored at Addu Atool in the Maldive Islands, mail going ashore and taking on water. The next morning at 0900hrs, Convoy DM.1 got under way escorted by HMS Emerald , Exeter and Jumna.
1942/01/13 - At 1315hrs Mount Vernon docked at the Navy Yard, Singapore.
1942/02/15 - Singapore surrendered
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/03/23 - Overland to Thailand with ‘D’ Force, Train 9
This was the 58th Train to Thailand
On arrival he was attached to Group 4 23 (Takke) Work Battalion
Under Lt. Col. Gerald Goodwin Carpenter 1st Cambridgeshire Regt.
Camps in Thailand:-
Wang Pho- 111km from Nong Pladuk
Kinsaiyok Jungle No.2 - 167km from Nong Pladuk
Tha Sao Hospital - 125km from Nong Pladuk
Tha Muang - 38.9km from Nong Pladuk
1944 - Transported back to Singapore
1944/09/04 - Oversea to Japan in Kachidoki Maru, Japan Party 3.
With 900 PoWs.
1944/09/12 - Attacked by the USS Pampanito submarine near East Hainan Island and sunk. All those who survived the sinking jumped within the first 10 minutes of the Kachidoki Maru being hit.
John did not make it.
Died
Age 32
1944/09/12
In the Sinking of the Kachidoki Maru
Loved Ones
Son of Mrs. M.A. Angell, of Liverpool
Husband of Frances Angell, of Liverpool
Memorial
Column 40.
Singapore Memorial
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Information
Sandra Coulthard - Great Niece
Andrew Snow - Thailand Burma Railway Centre
Convoy William Sail 12X
Thailand - Burma Railway
Kachidoki Maru
KEW Files:- WO 345/1, WO 361/2057, WO 392/23, WO 361/2005, WO 361/1742, WO 367/2, WO 361/1987, WO 361/2191, WO 361/2070,
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