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OS 282
Lieutenant
Neville Archibald Webb
1898/03/15 - Born Musoorie, India
Neville was Regular Army
Neville Married Anne Morris in India
They were blessed with three children
Next of Kin - Miss M Webb, c/o General Headquarters, New Delhi, India
Indian Army Ordnance Corps
11th Indian Division
Service
Served in the ranks for 1 year, 291 days
1941/08/09 - Commissioned, Indian Army (emergency commission to 1946/09/06).
Serving Singapore when the Japanese entered the war by bombing Pearl Harbour, attacking Malaya and Hong Kong.
1942/02/15 - Singapore surrendered to the Japanese.
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
Changi Camp
Japanese Index Cards - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/11/06 - Transported overland to Thailand with Letter Party ‘L’, train 13
Work Group 2
New PoW No. 5136
His movements (from others in the same group) would be:-
Wang Lan, 68.59 km from Nong Pladuk
Tha Kilen, 97 km from Nong Pladuk
Wang Pho, 111.50 km from Nong Pladuk
Tha Khanun, 56km from Nong Pladuk.
1943/10/25 - Rail Lines from Thailand and Burma joined near Konkoita, Thailand
Back to Chungkai then Kanchanaburi Officers Camp and perhaps Nakhon Nayok.
New PoW No. 1674
1945/09/04 - Liberated Thailand
Post War
1945 - Married May Louie Rawe in India.
May had served in India 1942-45 with the Women’s Auxiliary Co.
They had no children.
Neville’s Army Service after Liberation
1946, April - Instructor (Class B), Infantry Schools, India
1946/09/07 - Commissioned, The Hampshire Regiment (permanent commission)
1948/08/21 - Transferred, 10th (Princess Mary's Own) Gurkha Rifles
Rank Breakdown
Lieutenant:- 1946/09/07, seniority 1941/03/03 (200864)
Captain:- 1946/09/07, seniority 1946/07/01
Major:- 1952/04/28
Lieutenant Colonel:- 1959/06/17
Retired 1961/04/10)
Neville died aged 68 on the 13th March 1967.
He was buried at Deepcut Military Cemetery, Surrey, with May who died in 1960.
Information
Sue Teggert - Granddaughter
Andrew Snow - Thailand Burma Railway Centre
Fall of Malaya and Singapore
KEW Files:- WO 361/1954, WO 361/7610, WO 345/54, WO 361/2196, WO392/26, Wo 392/26, WO 361/1979,
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