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6410
Corporal
Henry Francis De Camborne Lucy
1908/09/20 - Born Herefordshire
Son of Francis and Violet Lucy
Occupation Planter (General Manager Amhurst Estate)
Next of Kin: F W Lucy, Langley Lodge, Sutton Valence, Kent
Federated Malay States Volunteer Force
Armoured Cars
Service
Henry was with Robert Veitch when they were both wounded in Singapore. Robert was taken to Alexandra Hospital and was bayoneted to death in the Alexandra Hospital massacre.
1942/02/15 - Singapore surrendered
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
PoW No. I 12655
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index card - Side Two
1943/03/06 - Transported to Blakang Mati
New Pow No. 7045
1943/09/17 - Returned to Changi
1945/11/02 - Liberated Changi
General Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese Commander of Singapore, would not accept the surrender. Plus it gave him time to cover up all Japanese Atrocities in Singapore. The allied naval landing force 'Operation Tiderace' were delayed as it was still understood the Japanese would dispose of all the PoWs in Singapore if they landed. Mountbatten ordered British paratroopers into Singapore to protect the camps. To many of the PoWs in Singapore, those red berets of the paratroopers were the first signs that the war had ended. All this delayed organising the PoWs. It wasn't till the 12th September that Lord Mountbatten accepted the Japanese surrender at the Municipal Building. Hospital cases were the first to leave Singapore 1945/09/10 on the HMHS Koroa. They were soon followed by Repatriation ships which started reaching the UK about the 15th of October 1945. Why many of the liberated PoWs on these ships had November on their Japanese Index cards, I don't know as in other areas of the Far East, PoWs were marked as Liberated at their PoW camps with the correct date. Unless General Seishiro Itagaki did not make the cards available when the camps were liberated.
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Information
Tan DingXiang
KEW Files:- WO 367/3, WO 361/2061, WO 361/2017, WO 392/25, WO 345/32, WO 361/1947,
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