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Captain
Thomas Wilfrid Nash
Above Plaque in Sherborne Abbey, Dorset
1913/07/09, Born County Kinsale, Ireland
B.A. (2nd Class Mechanical Science Tripos); Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Son of John Wilfrid and Edith Mary Elizabeth Nash
Royal Engineers
42 Field Field Park Company
Attd. Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners
1942/06/27 - WO417/3, Casualty List No. 861. Reported to War Office Casualty Section for the 24 hours ending at 09:00. Missing
1942/012/15 - WO417/004, Casualty List No. 1007. Serving with Indian Army. Previously shown on Casualty List No. 861 as Missing, 15/02/1942. Now a PoW.
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Malaya
PoW No. II 23
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/05/17 - Transported overland with ‘H’ Party, Train 6
81st train from Singapore to Thailand
New PoW No. V 768
1943/07/31 - Admitted to hospital at Hintock
Died
Age 30
1943/08/01 - 1935 hours
Cause of Death Cholera
Place of Death Hintock River Camp
Cemetery, Grave 17
(In Statement by Captain G V Bird, Royal Engineers, 1946)
1945/09/14 - WO417/9, Casualty List No.1858. Previously shown on Casualty List No.1007 as Prisoner of War Malaya. Died
Loved Ones
Son of Comdr. John Wilfred Nash and Edith May Elizabeth Nash, of Sherborne, Dorsetshire
Memorial
9. H. 15.
CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY
Information
Barbara James
Keith Andrews
Japanese Transports
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
KEW:- WO 361/1633, WO 361/1631/1, WO 361/1633/2, WO 361/1946, WO 361/2053, WO 345/37, WO 392/25, WO 361/2062, WO 361/1504, WO 361/2191,
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