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Lance Corporal
George Alfred Oliver
1916/07/16 - Born Wellington, Shropshire
Son of Jabez and Elsie Oliver
Leicestershire Regiment
1st Battalion
Service
The 2nd Battalion, East Surreys and 1st Battalion, Leicesters were amalgamated to form the ‘British Battalion’ . The two battalions had suffered heavy losses in North Malaya after the Japanese attack in December 1941 and were amalgamated on 20th December 1941 as the ‘British Battalion’ under the command of Lieut. Col. C.E. Morrison, D.S.O., M.C., of The Royal Leicestershire Regiment. George was captured on 25th December 1941 with other Leicesters in the long retreat down Malaya. He was taken to Taiping Gaol then sent to Pudu Gaol Kuala Lumpur.
Japanese PoW
1941/12/25 - Captured Malaya
PoW No. IV 10479
First Japanese Index Card - Side One
First Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/03/23 - Transported overland to Thailand with ‘D’ Force
New PoW No. IV 12222
Under Commander Lt-Col. G.G. Carpenter, 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment
1943/06/25 - Escaped Kinsaiyok
Second Japanese Index Card - Side One
Second Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1943/07/15 - Captured and shot. He was executed at 175km West of Kinsaiyok with Sapper Thomas Eadie, 1986097, R.E.
Died
Age 28
1943/07/15
Cause of Death Executed
West of Kinsaiyok, Thailand
Loved Ones
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Oliver, of Donnington Wood, Shropshire
Memorial
Column 64.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
Information
Darren Perrins
Jonathan Moffatt
Fall of Malaya and Singapore
KEW:- WO 361/2172, WO 392/25, WO 345/28, WO 345/39, WO 367/3, WO 361/1955, WO 361/1987, WO 361/1520, WO 361/2169, WO 361/2235, WO 361/2206,
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