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5440
Private
Leslie Francis Denman May
1916/07/11 - Born London
Son of Dr George Francis and Dorothy (née Croft) May
(Dr George Francis May of Co. Durham mental hospital)
1930 to 1935 - Leslie attended Epsom College
Served in the Territorials with the City of London based Honourable Artillery Company
1938 - Left Liverpool for Singapore on board the ‘Aeneas’, for a post at Joseph Travers and Sons in the Far East, travelling 1st class as a Clerk, aged 21.
(Line - THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE)
Occupation Merchant
Straits Settlement Volunteer Force
3rd Battalion
Southern Area
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/10/24 - Transported overland to Thailand
16th train from Singapore with 650 PoWs
Commander P.S.F. Jackson, R.A. 7th Coast Rgt.
IV 2462
Transported back to Singapore
1944/09/06 - Transported in Kachidoki Maru with convoy HI-72, destination Japan. With 900 PoWs on board. Japan Party Three.
New PoW No. IV 43135
1944/09/12 - Attacked at 21.50 hrs off East Hainon Island and sunk by USS Pampanito
Leslie died in the sinking of the ship
Died
1944/09/12
In the sinking of the Kachidoki Maru
Memorial
Addenda Panel
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
A memorial with his name on is at the City of London church St Mary Abchurch, in Abchurch Lane, just off Cannon Street.
Information
Ian Parrott
Japanese Transport
Hell Ships
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
KEW:- WO 361/2005, WO 361/1742, WO 361/2057, WO 361/1987, WO 361/2062, WO 392/25, WO 345/35,
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