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Captain
Michael Alfred Ashton M.C
1920/02/01 - Born
Lived Kensington, London
1939/07/01 - Enlisted
Royal Norfolk Regiment
4th Battalion
1941/10/29 - Convoy CT.5 sailed from Liverpool with 18th Division mostly territorial Regiments
The 4th Royal Norfolk Regiment were transported in the Andes along with the 4th and 5th Suffolk Regiments
1941/11/08 - Disembarked at Halifax and embarked USS Wakefield
1941/11/10 - Sailed from Halifax in Convoy William Sail 12X
1941/12/11 - Departed Cape Town
1941/12/25 - Mount Vernon with 5th and 6th Royal Norfolk Regiments plus 2nd Cambridgeshire Regiment left convoy for Singapore
1941/12/28 - Wakefield docked at Bombay
1942/01/19 - Left Bombay with the now Task Force 14.2 for Singapore
1942/01/29 - Disembarked at Singapore just after a Japanese bombing raid, docks were ablaze
18th Division held North Eastern side of Singapore against the Japanese
1942/02/10 - Moved to Bukit Timah as ‘Tomforce’ under Lt. Col. L.C. Thomas in support of 12 Indian brigade
1942/02/12 - Japanese caused heavy losses within Tomforce
1942/02/15 - Singapore Capitulated
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore - PoW number 175
1942/10/21 - Overland to Thailand Camp 4D
1942/11/02 - Tarsao
1944/06/01 - Tamaran
1945/01/10 - Kanburi
1945/08/15 - Liberated
Died
Aged 95
2016 January 7th
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