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Lance Corporal
Arthur Raymond Drew
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1916/06/04 - Born
Woething, North Elmham, East Dereham, Norfolk
1940/04/18 - Enlisted
Royal Norfolk Regiment
4th Battalion
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Service Record
1941//10/29 - The 4th Royal Norfolk Regiment sailed in the Andes from Liverpool destination Halifax within Convoy CT.5.
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The 4th Royal Norfolk and 4th Suffolk Regiments transferred to the USS Wakefield in Halifax
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1941/11/10 - Voyage continued in the Wakefield destination unknown believed to be the Middle East within Convoy William Sail 12X
1941/12/08 - Japan invades Malaya
1941/12/13 - Convoy William Sail 12X leaves Cape Town for Kenya.
1942/12/27 - Convoy reaches Bombay
1941/12/29 - the Mount Vernon leaves Bombay and convoy for Singapore, the convoy now becomes Task Force 14.2
1942/01/19 - Left Bombay for Singapore
1942/01/29 - Disembarked Singapore
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
1942/03/10 - Under Lt. Col. Heath RA![Drew-Arthur-Raymond-1 Drew-Arthur-Raymond-1](../assets/images/Drew-Arthur-Raymond-1.jpg)
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Japanese Card Number 10920 (WO 345/15)
1942/11/04 - Overland to Bam Pong, Thailand, under Major Coles (WO 361/2176)
Back to Changi
1944/12/29 - Oversea Saigon, Dock Camp, under Major Glossop (WO 361/2176)
1945/08/15 - Liberated
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