To honour those who served their country

“In this their finest hour”

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Gunner

Jacob Elliott Hull

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1911/07/13 - Bishop Auckland

Son of Edward and Elizabeth

Royal Artillery

118 Field Regiment

 

1942/03/30 - WO 417/40, Casualty List No. 784. Missing

1943/08/13 - WO 417/64, Casualty List No. 1211. Previously shown on Casualty List No. 784 as Missing, now reported Prisoner of War.

 

Japanese PoW

1942.02.15 - Captured Singapore

PoW No. IV 4627

Japanese Index Card - Side One

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Japanese Index CXrd - Side Two

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1942/10/30 - Transported overland to Thailand with Letter Party ‘S’

Work Party 4

22nd Train from Singapore to Thailand

New PoW No. IV 9026

Lt. Col. Mackellar of the 118 F/R working first at Tonchan Central then moving to Tonchan South by May 1943.

1943/08/27 - Admitted to Tha Sao Hospital

 

Died

Age 32

1943/10/23

Died Tha Sao Hospital, Thailand

Cause of Death Nutritional Debility and Dysentery

Buried St. Luke's Cemetery Grave 322.

Nutritional Debility is also known as Avitaminosis (lack of vitamins)

(After the War Jacob was reburied in a Commonwealth War Cemetery)

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Original Plan of St Lukes Cemetery Tha Sao

 

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1945/07/13 - WO417/94_2, Casualty List No. 1807. Previously shown on Casualty List No. 1211 as reported Prisoner of War in Japanese Hands. Previous Theatre of War, Malaya. Died 1943/10/23.

 

Loved Ones

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hull

Husband of Gladys Hull, of Clapham, London

Father of Doreen

 

Memorial

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Hull-Jacob-Elliott - Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Site Plan

4. C. 41.

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY

 

MY FATHER, AS THOU WILT, IF LOVED ONES MUST DEPART, FOR THEY ARE BLEST WITH THEE

 

 

Information

Sandie Sanderson -
Glenda Godfrey
Andrew Snow
Alan Hilton
Japanese Transports
Thailand-Burma Railway
Commonwealth War Grave Commission

KEW Files:- WO 361/1526, WO 361/2053, WO 392/24, WO 345/27, WO 361/2172, WO 361/1955, WO 361/1520, WO 361/2235, WO 361/2069, WO 361/2169, WO 361/1623, WO 361/2185,

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