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Gunner
Andrew Vere
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1911/09/19 - Born Canonbie, Dumfriesshire
Son of John James and Jeanie Vere
Occupation Agriculture Labourer
Royal Artillery
155 (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
Japanese Index Card - Side One
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Japanese Index Card - Side Two
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1942/10/25 - Transported oversea in England Maru with ‘Z’ Force to Thailand
With 1100 PoWs
Commander Lt-Col. E.W.F. Jephson, RA 5th Field HQ
1943/11/14 - Arrived Keelung, Thailand after three week journey
New PoW No. IV 2007
Andrew and 499 other PoWs taken to Kinkaseki - Camp 1
Worked in Copper Mine
Transferred to Shirakawa - Camp 4A
Died
Age 33
1945/04/14
Cause of Death Malnutrtional Oedema with Ascites
Plus Enteritis with Beriberi
Buried Shirakawa
Loved Ones
Son of Jeanie Grant, of Langholm, Dumfriesshire
Memorial
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VI. H. 3.
SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY
‘HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE’
Information
Japanese Transport
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Never Forgotten - Taiwan PoW Camps
KEW:- WO 361/1475, WO 361/1475, WO 361/1216, WO 361/1475/2, WO 361/1582, WO 392/26, WO 345/53, WO 361/1968, WO 361/1623, WO 361/2065, WO 361/2068, WO 361/2188,
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