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Gunner
Henry Claude Leggett
1910/03/17 - Born Stevenage
1932- Married Florence Cousins
Occupation Labourer
1939/05/14 - Enlisted
Royal Artillery
135 (The Hertfordshire Yeomenry) Field Regiment
18th Division
Service
1941/10/31 - The 135th Field Regiment sailed from Gourock in the Polish Free State vessel, ‘M,V. Sobieski’ and joined Convoy CT.5 (18th Division) off the Irish Coast.
Also on board were the 2nd Cambridgeshire Regiment as part of the 18th Division.
1941/11/08 - Transferred to USS Mount Vernon with 53 Infantry Brigade
1941/11/10 - Sailed from Halifax in Convoy William Sail 12X
1941/11/18 - Arrived Port Spain, Trinidad
1941/11/20 - Sailed for Cape Town
1941/12/08 - Japan entered the war and invades Malaya
1941/12/09 - Arrived Cape Town
1941/12/13 - Sailed for Mombassa, Kenya
1941/12/25 Arrived Mombassa, Kenya
1941/12/29 - Mount Vernon left Kenya for Singapore in Convoy DM.1
1942/01/04 - Mount Vernon anchored at Addu Atool in the Maldive Islands, mail going ashore and taking on water. The next morning at 0900hrs, Convoy DM.1 got under way escorted by HMS Emerald , Exeter and Jumna.
1942/01/13 - At 1315hrs Mount Vernon docked at the Navy Yard, Singapore
1942/02/15 - Singapore surrendered to Japanese
1942/04/09 - WO 417/41, Casualty List No. 793. Reported ‘Missing’.
1943/08/26 - WO 417/65, Casualty List No. 1222. Previously posted Missing now reported ‘Prisoner of War’.
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Camptured Singapore
PoW No. M-1345
Changi, Singapore
Commander Col. Toosey
1942/05 - Bukit Timah, Singapore
Commander Brig C.L.B. Duke, 11442
Japnese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/10/22 - Transported overland to Thailand, Sime Road Party, train 4
16th Train to Thailand
Group 1
1942/10/26 - Arrived Ban Pong, Thailand
New PoW No. I 24334
Camps in Thailand:-
Kinsiayok - 161km form Nong Pladuk
Konkoita - 250km from Nong Pladuk
Nong Pladuk
Commander Col. Toosey
1945/02/ - Ubon, North East of Bangkok
Commander Captain Ernest Albert Smythe, Royal Army Medical Corps
New PoW No. 10217
Medical Diary 4 (Page 391, Rec.No. 17335, Date Admit. 1945/05/01, Date Dis. 1945/05/03, Diagnosis:- Malaria, Notes Sp NP).
Medical Diary 5 (Page 397, Rec.No. 17478, Date Admit. 1945/06/05, Date Dis. 1956/06/07, Diagnosis:- Malaria).
1945/08/30 - Liberated, transferred to Allied forces Bangkok.
Flown to Rangoon for rehabilitation before being sipped home
Liberation Questionnaire
1945/10/31 - WO417/98, Casualty List No. 1898. Previously reported on Casualty List No. 1222 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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Died
1987 at Hitchen.
Information
Janice Jeffrey
Andrew Snow - Thailand Burma Railway Centre
Glenda Godfrey
Tan DingXiang
Convoy William Sail 12X
Japanese Transports
Thailand -Burma Railway
Ubon - Ray Withnall
Liberation Questionnaire - COFEPOW
KEW Files:- WO 361/2172, WO 392/25, WO 345/31, WO 361/1955, WO 361/2196, WO 361/2061, WO 361/2186,
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