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127468
Lieutenant Colonel
Frederic Gerald Hayes
Oak Leaf Award - Mentioned in Dispatches
1905/07/19 - Born
Occupation - Store Manager
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Cdg. 14 Section
Service
1940 April 1st - Promotion to 2nd Lt. (London Gazette 34861 page 3266)
1942/03/10 - WO417/002, Casualty List No. 767. Reported ‘Missing’.
1942/12/14 - WO417/004, Casualty List No. 1006. Previously shown on Casualty List No. 767 as reported Missing, 15/02/1942. Now reported a ‘Prisoner of War’.
Japanese PoW
PoW No. I 272
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/05/17 - Transported overland to Thailand with ‘H’ Force, train 6
HQMC and Java Parties Mixed
82nd Train to Thailand
Commander Lt-Col. H R Humphries, 77 H.A.A., RA
New PoW No. V 483
1943/06/21 - In the roll of ‘H’ Force kept at ’H’ Force HQ, Kannyu Jungle Camp. The roll was kept by ‘H’ Force Commander Lt-Col. Humphries
From H6 Officers Party Report :- The first casualty for evacuation was Lieut. Col. F.G. Hayes, RAOC. The case was diagnosed on 30/6/43 as acute appendicitis and he was evacuated to hospital at Tha Sao. There was no ambulance available and he had to be carried some 8 miles by a volunteer party of officers as stretcher-bearers. This officer subsequently died of amoebic dysentery in hospital at Tha Sao on 17/7/43.
St Lukes Cemetery, Tha Sao (No 2)
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Died
Age 38
1943/07/17
Wang Yai Hospital
Buried Tha Sao No. 2 Cemetery, grave 31
(After the war the PoWs were exhumed and moved to Commonwealth Cemeteries but there was a mix up and Frederic is remembered on the Singapore Memorial)
1943/09/24 - WO417/005, Casualty List No. 1247. Previously shown on Casualty List No. 1006 as reported Prisoner of War. Previous Theatre of War, Malaya. Reported ‘Died’.
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1939-45 Star - Pacific Star - Defence Medal - War Medal
The railway spike is from Tonchan South cutting
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London Gazette
1946 August
37671 page 3921
Loved Ones
Son of Frederick Thomas Hayes and Beatrice Hayes.
Husband of Dorothy F. Hayes, of Cuffley, Hertfordshire.
Memorial
Column 107.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
Post War
By Rob Centa (Grandson)
Lieutenant Colonel Lionel Manning RAOC 127337. My grandfathers best mate, they joined up together before the war, my grandfathers number was 127468.
Lionel made it home, here he is giving my mother away on 27th July 1957 at my parents wedding at Northaw church Hertfordshire.
The photo was taken outside her grandparents house who she lived with, the same address as on Frederic’s death certificate. Lionel also signed my grandfathers death certificate in Thailand.
Information
Rob Centa - Grandson
Japanese Transports
Thailand-Burma Railway
London Gazette
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
KEW Files:- WO 367/1, WO 345/24, WO 361/1946, WO 392/24, WO 361/2060, WO 361/2234, WO 361/2181, WO 361/2233,
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