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Captain
James Francis Pantridge
Known as Frank
1916/10/03 - Born County Down, Northern Island
Son of Robert James and Elizabeth Pantridge
Educated at local Friends School
1939 - Graduated in Medicine from The Queen's University of Belfast.
Occupation Doctor
1940/04/12 - Enlisted
Royal Army Medical Corps
Japanese PoW
PoW No. ii 24
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
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Camp
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Commanders
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1942/02/15
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Changi, Singapore
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1942/10
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Serangoon Road, Singapore
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Lt. Col. Pratley
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1943/01
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Changi, Singapore
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1943/04/29
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Overland to Thailand with ‘F’ Force, Train 74
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Lt-Col. Harris
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New PoW No. 798
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Songkurai Camp, Thailand
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Tanbaya, Thailand
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1944/04
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Chango, Singapore
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Lt-Col. Newey
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Survived the usually fatal cardiac beriberi
1945/11/02 - Liberated
Post War
1945 - Belfast as part-time supernumerary lecturer in the university's department of pathology.
Obtained scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he worked with F N Wilson, then the world authority on electrocardiographs.
1950 - Returned to Belfast and was appointed Physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital.
1965 - He produced the first "portable" defibrillator. It operated from car batteries and weighed 70 kilos. The portable defibrillator was installed in an ambulance, thus creating the pre-hospital coronary care unit known as the Pantridge Plan. This plan was used to manage President Lyndon Johnson when he suffered a heart attack while on a visit to Virginia in 1972.
1975 Wrote ‘The Acute Coronary Attack’
1978 - Appointed CBE
1982 - Retired at Royal Victoria Hospital
In retirement he fished.
Died
Age 88
2004/12/26
Information
Thailand-Burma Railway
KEW:- WO 367/1, WO 345/39, WO 361/1946, WO 392/25, WO 361/1344, WO 345/28, WO 361/2025, WO 367/1,
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