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Private
Francis Albert John Franks
1913/12/18 - Born London
Occupation - Hairdresser
Cambridgeshire Regiment
1st Battalion
Service
1941/10/30 - Sailed in the ‘Orcades’ from Liverpool in Convoy CT.5
1941/11/08 - Arrived Halifax and was transferred to USS West Point
1941/11/10 - Sailed from Halifax in Convoy William Sail 12X
Via Port Spain, Trinidad and Cape Town to Bombay, India.
1941/12/08 - Japan invades Malaya
1942/01/06 - Convoy reaches Bombay for training in jungle warfare.
1942/01/19 - Task Force 14 sailed for Singapore
1942/01/30 - Convoy reached Singapore
1942/02/15 - Singapore Surrendered
Japanese PoW
1942/02/15 - Became Japanese PoW
PoW No. 24002
Japanese Index Card - Side One
Japanese Index Card - Side Two
1942/11/02 - Transported overland to Thailand with ‘P Party’
New PoW No. 6845
1945/09/07 - Liberated from Thailand , McEachern being the senior Australian officer on the Thailand to Burma Railway
Information
William Sail 12X
Keith Andrews
KEW:- WO 361/2172, WO 345/19, WO 361/1979, WO 361/1954, WO 361/2196, WO 361/2165, WO 361/2166, WO 361/2165,
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