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Signalman
Frederick Horatio Craig
1917/06/19 - Born Newcastle-on-Tyne
Son of William and Henrietta Craig
Occupation GPO sorting clerk
1940/05/30 - Enlisted
Next of Kin:- Parents: W & H Craig, 118 Ladykirk Road, Newcastle on Tyne
Royal Corps of Signals
3rd Indian Corps Signals
1942/05/06 - WO 417/43, Reported Missing.
1943/05/14 - WO417/60, Casualty List No. 1134. Previously posted Missing, 15/02/1942, Casualty List No. 816. Now reported a Prisoner of War.
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
1942/02/15 - Changi
Commander Major English, 11th Indian Signals
1942/05 - Great World Camp
Commander Major Coles, 155 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
PoW No. VII 2314
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/11/04 - Transported overland with ‘N’ Letter Party, train 11 to Thailand
650 PoWs - 29th Train to Thailand
Commander Lt-Col. S.C. Scott, 2/17 Dogra Regiment
Thailand Railway Camps:-
(Supplied by Andrew Snow - Thailand Burma Railway Centre)
Nong Pladuk, start of Thailand end of railway
Commander Lt-Col. Gill, 137 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Arrow Hill, 109.80km from Nong Pladuk
Wang Yai, 124.85km from Nong Pladuk
Tampii, 147.53km from Nong Pladuk
Tha Mayo, 236.80km from Nong Pladuk
1943/10 - Thailand-Burma lines joined at Konkoita
1943/12 - Kanchanaburi, 52km from Nong Pladuk
1944/09/15 - Transported back to Singapore
River Valley Camp
Commander Lt-Col. Gill, 137 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
1945/02/02 - Transported oversea to French Indo-China in Haruyasa Maru
New PoW No. VII 40889
Saigon, Thailand Camp 10, French Indo-China (Vietnam)
Aerodrome Camps
Commander RSM Broadstreet, 137 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Camp 10 was situated on the Rue Catinat, which was a main thoroughfare between the native quarter and the French quarter. The huts were of timber construction except for the hospital which was of bamboo structure with an attapi roof. All the huts had electric light.
Rice was still their main diet but they now received meat twice a week and eggs to buy in the canteen, within no time their weight improved.
1945/09/12 - Liberated Saigon Camp when English and Dutch paratroopers entered the camp.
Flown via Bangkok to Rangoon Hospital
Liberation Questionnaire
1945/10/06 - WO417/97-2, Casualty List No. 1877. Previously reported on Casualty List No. 1134 as Prisoner of War now Not Prisoner of War. Previous Theatre of War, Malaya.
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Information
Matt Stanyard
Andrew Snow - Thailand Burma Railway Centre
Japanese Transport
Thailand-Burma Railway
Liberation Questionnaire - COFEPOW
KEW Files:- WO 345/12, WO 392/23, WO 361/2022, WO 361/2005, WO 361/2001, WO 361/2165, WO 361/2165, WO 361/2189, WO 361/2058,
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