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Signalman
Eric Walden
1919/08/11 - Born Melbourne, Derbyshire
Son of Harry and Ada Walden
1940/02/16 - Enlisted
Royal Corps of Signals
18th Division Signals
Service
1941/10/30 - Left Liverpool for Halifax in Convoy CT.5.
1941/11/08 - At Halifax transferred to American liners
1941/11/10 - Left Halifax with Convoy William Sail 12X, destination unknown, believed to be Middle East.
Above Photo of Convoy William Sail 12X supplied by the late Maurice Rooney
Vought SB 2U Vindicator Scout Bomber - USS Ranger which was flying an Anti Submarine patrol over the convoy.
Front Line Top to Bottom:-
USS West Point - USS Mount Vernon - USS Wakefield - USS Quincy (Heavy Cruiser)
Back Row Top To Bottom:-
USAT Leonard Wood - USS Vincennes (Heavy Cruiser) - USS Joseph T Dickman
(USS Orizaba Ap-24 also sailed with Convoy though not pictured in photo)
1941/12/08 - Japan entered war by bombing Pearl Harbour and invading Malaya
18th Division diverted from Middle East and sent to Singapore
1942/02/15 - Singapore surrendered to Japanese
1942/05/13 - WO 417/43, Casualty List No. 822. Missing.
1943/05/03 - WO 417/60, Casualty List No. 1124. Previously reported Missing, 15/02/1942, Casualty List No. 822. Now a Prisoner of War.
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
1942/02/16 - Changi Camp
PoW No. 1031
Commander Lt-Col. Frederick Ian Noel McOstrich, P580
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/06/18 - Transported overland to Thailand, in June Mainland Party.
Train One (this was the first train from Singapore to Thailand)
Roll No. 76 included Royal Signals 1 Officer with 55 Ordinary Ranks
1942/06/23 - Non Pladuk 1 Camp
New PoW No. I 27480
Commander Lt-Col. William Edwin Gill, 44786
Transported back to Singapore
1944/09/18 - River Valley Camp, Singapore
Commander Lt-Col. William Edwin Gill, 44786
1945/02/02 - Transported oversea to Saigon Camp 10, French Indo China in Haruyasa Maru
New PoW No. X 45183
1945/02/23 - Long Thanh, French Indo China
Commander Lt-Col. William Edwin Gill, 44786
1945/05/01 - Lianga, French Indo China
Commander C.S.M. Lionel Walter David Bradstreet, 1060988
1945/08/10 - Saigon, French Indo China
1945/09/12 - Liberated when Dutch and British paratroopers dropped into camp and organised parties to be flown out.
The planned route was by aircraft from Saigon, refuelling at Bangkok and then onto Rangoon for hospitalisation
The first flight carried the sick. After refuelling from Bangkok it crashed killing everyone on board. A sad ending after three and a half years of surviving the camps.
1945/09/29 - WO417/97_1, Casualty List No. 1871. Previously shown as Prisoner of War - Malaya. Missing believed Killed.
1945/11/26 - WO417/99, Casualty List No. 1920. Previously reported on Casualty List No. 1871 as Missing believed Killed now reported Not Missing.
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Pacific Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Information
John Sandles
Andy Sharpe
KEW Files:- WO 345/53, WO 392/26, WO 361/2005, WO 361/2065, WO 361/2165, WO 361/2165, WO 361/2068, WO 361/2190,
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