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Bombardier
Alexander Sutherland Lawson
Cavers
1906/02/10 - Born Berwick, Northumberland, England
(Home address - Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland)
Married Jean
Royal Artillery
155 (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
Service
WO 417/42 - Reported missing Malaya
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Captured Singapore
PoW No. II 285
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side two
1943/04/29 - Transported overland to Nong Pluduc, Thailand with ‘F’ Force to
New PoW No. IV 2814
1943/04/29 - Reported sick at Changaraya
(301km from Nong Pladuc)
Died
Age 37
1943/05/29
Cause of Death Cholera
214 PoWs died at this camp
Cremated Changaraya
Memorial
Sp. Mem. 9. M. 4.
KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
(All PoWs who died at Changaraya are buried in a mass grave at Kanchanaburi)
Information
Thailand-Burma Railway
Commonwealth War Grave Commission
KEW:- WO 361/1625, WO 361/1625, WO 345/9, WO 361/1946, WO 392/23, WO 361/2058, WO 361/2234, WO 361/2184, ARR2, WO 417/42, WO 417/100,
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